Modernity in Marriage: Tracing Marriage Patterns from the 19th Century to the Present

This project began as an attempt to discover when marriage, as an institution, began to shift. Generally speaking, women married at much younger ages in the 19th century than they do in the present, and I was curious about how and why this divide increased. This interest began to narrow and refine itself as my project developed: rather than focus exclusively on age, I started to become more curious about how marriage was advertised to young women and girls