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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
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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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