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Ages.. Written by DeborahAnn (1/22/2004 9:44 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, Speculating about age, penned by Line

]...assumed that Mrs. Bennet was young, but not a teenager, when she married - say age 20,...

I think that would be about the right age. Alot would depend on family circumstances at the time..but it was not unusual for young ladies to marry around the age of 16.

I have a couple of families in my database that are similar to the Bennets situation from that same time period being written about..the average age the daughters married was in deed 20 years old.

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Mr Bennet's death Kristen G. (1/20/2004 8:18 p.m.)

And he supposed to be a clergyman.. Nasima (1/21/2004 2:29 a.m.)
- Clergymen were not always called to their pulpits Karrie (1/21/2004 6:11 a.m.)
  - True about those clergymen Vania (1/21/2004 8:46 p.m.)
Odious, but not for that reason Kathi (1/21/2004 12:11 a.m.)
- Malice comes later... Christiana (1/21/2004 6:15 p.m.)
  - how old can we reasonably presume Mr and Mrs Bennet to be? Aria (1/21/2004 7:08 p.m.)
    - Speculating about age Line (1/21/2004 8:11 p.m.)
      - Ages.. DeborahAnn (1/22/2004 9:44 a.m.)
        
        If Mrs Bennet had married at 16 or so, ... kathleen (elder) (1/22/2004 1:38 p.m.)
      - ok, so I was thinking about right.... Aria (1/22/2004 9:18 a.m.)
Odious?! B. Michelle (1/20/2004 10:10 p.m.)

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