Early marriage would probably make most boys (and girls) mature, especially if the economy also provided family-supporting jobs. I'm in a group reading "Middlemarch" now. There is an old wealthy bachelor scholar, Mr. Casaubon, who takes - actually accepts the worship of - a younger woman, Dorothea Brook, from another wealthy family. Whil…
Early marriage would probably make most boys (and girls) mature, especially if the economy also provided family-supporting jobs. I'm in a group reading "Middlemarch" now. There is an old wealthy bachelor scholar, Mr. Casaubon, who takes - actually accepts the worship of - a younger woman, Dorothea Brook, from another wealthy family. While on a kind of honeymoon in Rome (where he does research for his never to be written book), she meets his younger cousin, whom he supports, Will Ladislaw, who has heretofore been a kind of perpetual graduate student. Ladislaw is affected enough by Dorothea that he returns to England to start a career and earn a living, so he could support a wife.
Early marriage would probably make most boys (and girls) mature, especially if the economy also provided family-supporting jobs. I'm in a group reading "Middlemarch" now. There is an old wealthy bachelor scholar, Mr. Casaubon, who takes - actually accepts the worship of - a younger woman, Dorothea Brook, from another wealthy family. While on a kind of honeymoon in Rome (where he does research for his never to be written book), she meets his younger cousin, whom he supports, Will Ladislaw, who has heretofore been a kind of perpetual graduate student. Ladislaw is affected enough by Dorothea that he returns to England to start a career and earn a living, so he could support a wife.