"She will be married at sixteen!" (Mrs Bennett)

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"She will be married at sixteen!" (Mrs Bennett) Written by Heather Leigh (9/9/2009 11:23 a.m.) in consequence of the missive, She's sixteen right here and it shows, penned by Angela C

Judging from novels, a sixteen year-old girl was an adult in Austen's time, at least in the important sense of being marriageable. Emotionally she may have been immature, but regarded as old enough to be a wife (and manager of a household, if her husband had one).

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Farewell to Norland. Rachel G (9/8/2009 6:19 a.m.)

She's sixteen right here and it shows Angela C (9/8/2009 6:09 p.m.)
- "She will be married at sixteen!" (Mrs Bennett) Heather Leigh (9/9/2009 11:23 a.m.)
- I have this feeling that... Reeba (9/9/2009 3:06 a.m.)
  - Good Point nfm BarbaraB (9/9/2009 10:32 a.m.)
- I think you've got another piece of the puzzle that is Marianne Cathy Allen (9/8/2009 6:43 p.m.)
  - I agree Melissa K. (9/8/2009 9:34 p.m.)
    - Yeah she simply had yet... Angela C (9/9/2009 12:11 a.m.)
As noted below, she's like her mother LouAnn (9/8/2009 3:02 p.m.)
- Another :-) Barb JA (9/9/2009 8:38 a.m.)
Drama Queen Carol J. (9/8/2009 3:01 p.m.)
Marianne reminds me of a Silent-Movie tragic heroine Cathy Allen (9/8/2009 1:33 p.m.)
- FABulous! lol : D (nfm) Ivonne (9/8/2009 6:32 p.m.)
- This very much how I see her, too Outi (9/8/2009 3:52 p.m.)
Sensibility=prescribed reactions Barbara (9/8/2009 1:19 p.m.)
- Why, it's practically plagiarism! Ivonne (9/8/2009 6:30 p.m.)
- That's the Irony of it all BarbaraB (9/8/2009 4:28 p.m.)
- She must have read that poem... Rachel G (9/8/2009 2:53 p.m.)

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