Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
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Marriage in the 18th Century
In the 18th century marriage is adults who are sort of on a par, similar experiences in life. Women were typically 23, 24, men were mid-20s, maybe 26, 27, 28. The parish could stop a couple from marrying if they were not deemed fiscally stable. And so for men in particular getting married was sort of coming into their masculinity and entering civil society.
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