Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-9614551-20140306233754/@comment-16811522-20140307004442

You're forgetting the timeline. In the Renaissance, for example, girls as young as age 12 were eligible for marriage. William Shakespeare was 18 when he married; this was the 1500s, and Juliet from his famous play was nearly 14. In the play, Lady Capulet said that girls younger than Juliet were "made already mothers" and that she herself was a mother "much upon these years that you [Juliet] are now a maid."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House books, married at age 18; this was the late 1800s.