Table of Contents List of Illustrations Contributor Notes Introduction Elizabeth S. Cohen and Margaret Reeves Part 1 Concepts and representations 1. 'A Prospect of Flowers': Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture Margaret Reeves 2. A Roving Woman: The Rover, Part 1 and Hellena's Self-Creation of Youth Sarah Morris 3. 'She is but a girl': Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550-1650 Jennifer McNabb 4. Flight and Confinement: Female Youth, Agency, and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Jacqueline Holler 5. Harlots and Camp Followers: Swiss Renaissance Drawings of Young Women circa 1520 Christiane Andersson Part 2 Self-representations: life-writing and letters 6. Three Sisters of Carmen: The Youths of Teresa de Jesús, María de San José, and Ana de San Bartolomé Barbara Mujica 7. Elite English Girlhood in Early Modern Ireland: The Examples of Mary Boyle and Alice Wandesford Julie A. Eckerle 8. Young Women Negotiating Fashion in Early Modern Florence Megan Moran 9. 'Is it possible that my sister . . . has had a baby?': The Early Years of Marriage as a Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood in the Letters of Three Generations of Orange-Nassau Women Jane Couchman Part 3 Training for adulthood 10. Malleable Youth: Forging Female Education in Early Modern Rome Alessandra Franco 11. The Material Culture of Female Youth in Bologna, 1550-1600 Michele Nicole Robinson 12. Becoming a Woman in the Dutch Republic: Advice Literature for Young Adult Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Marja van Tilburg Part 4 Courtship and becoming sexual 13. Straying and Led Astray: Roman Maids Become Young Women circa 1600 Elizabeth S. Cohen 14. A Room of Their Own: Young Women, Courtship, and the Night in Early Modern England Eleanor Hubbard 15. In Search of a 'remedy': Young Women, Their Intimate Partners, and the Challenge of Fertility in Early Modern France Julie Hardwick Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works