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Cover -- Table of Contents -- 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 I 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 -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Figure I.1 Hans Baldung Grien, The Seven Ages of Woman,1544-1545. -- Figure 5.1 Niklaus Manuel, Scenes from Camp Life (detail), c. 1517. -- Figure 5.2 Urs Graf, Young Woman Making a Gesture of Greeting,c. 1514. -- Figure 5.3 Urs Graf, Simpering Harlot, 1525. -- Figure 5.4 Urs Graf, Young Woman in Profile, 1517. -- Figure 5.5 Urs Graf, Old Fool Observing a Nude Young Woman,c. 1515. -- Figure 5.6 Urs Graf, Young Woman Stepping into a Brook, c. 1521. -- Figure 5.7 Urs Graf, Victim of War Standing before a Landscape,1514. -- Figure 5.8 Urs Graf, Camp Follower Passing a Hanged MercenarySoldier, 1525. -- Figure 11.1 Toy Jug made in Pesaro, Italy, c. 1520-1540. -- Figure 11.2 Saint Nicholas Dowering a Maiden (detail), from NicolòZoppino, Esemplario di lavori, 1529. -- Figure 12.1 The Virgin's Arms (Maeghde-wapen) from Jacob Cats,Houwelick, 1625. -- Figure 12.2 The Spinster's Arms (Vrijster-wapen) from Jacob Cats,Houwelick, 1625
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