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>> Historically, I believe puberty roughly coincided with the age of marriage for girls. > In England, just before the industrial revolution, historical source
by tivert 2y ago
>> Historically, I believe puberty roughly coincided with the age of marriage for girls.
> In England, just before the industrial revolution, historical sources suggest menarche occurred between 12-14 years. By the 1840s, girls had their first period between 14-17 years.
And just to point out another factual error in the OP's post, those women were also getting married in their mid-to-late 20s back then:
https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/07/11/what-age-did-people-marry/ https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/07/11/what-age-d...:
> In fact, the majority of women and men married considerably older than [their teens] in the past. The graph below shows the average age at marriage over the long sweep of English and Welsh history. Apart from a few decades in the early 1800s, the only time since 1550 that the average age of first marriage for women fell below age 24 was during the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s.
- recursivecaveat 2y agoThanks for posting that. I always thought Europeans before widespread secondary education usually got married in their late teens or so. Its good to have my misconception corrected.
- moi2388 2y agoWell, that’s interesting. I really had no idea. Perhaps Romeo and Juliet had a bit too much influence on my historical perspective :,)
- tivert 2y ago> Perhaps Romeo and Juliet had a bit too much influence on my historical perspective :,) And royalty/nobility. It mentions that marriage ages for them were younger. Which makes sense, because my understanding is those weddings were political and royalty would obviously not suffer the same economic pressures as the lower classes.