6. Three Sisters of Carmen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 11
4. Part 1. Concepts and Representations
5. 1. ‘A Prospect of Flowers’ 35
6. 2. A Roving Woman 59
7. 3. ‘She is but a girl’ 77
8. 4. Flight and Confinement 97
9. 5. Harlots and Camp Followers 117
10. Part 2. Self-Representations: Life-Writing and Letters
11. 6. Three Sisters of Carmen 137
12. 7. Elite English Girlhood in Early Modern Ireland 159
13. 8. Young Women Negotiating Fashion in Early Modern Florence 179
14. 9. ‘Is it possible that my sister […] has had a baby?’ 195
15. Part 3. Training for Adulthood
16. 10. Malleable Youth 217
17. 11. The Material Culture of Female Youth in Bologna, 1550–1600 235
18. 12. Becoming a Woman in the Dutch Republic 255
19. Part 4. Courtship and Becoming Sexual
20. 13. Straying and Led Astray 277
21. 14. A Room of Their Own 297
22. 15. In Search of a ‘Remedy’ 315
23. Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works 333
24. Index 339