Editing Elizabethan era (section)

===Marriage===
Over ninety per cent of English women (and adults, in general) entered [[marriage]] at the end of the 1500s and beginning of the 1600s, at an average age of about [[Western European marriage pattern|25–26 years for the bride]] and 27–28 years for the groom, with the most common ages being 25–26 for grooms (who would have finished their [[Statute of Artificers 1562|apprenticeships]] around this age) and 23 for brides.<ref>David Cressy. Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford University Press, 29 May 1997. Pg 285</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00483.x/full | doi=10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00483.x | title=Girl power: The European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period1 | year=2010 | last1=De Moor | first1=Tine | last2=Van Zanden | first2=JAN Luiten | journal=The Economic History Review | volume=63 | pages=1–33 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://elizabethan.org/compendium/9.html| title = Life in Elizabethan England: Weddings and Betrothals}}</ref> Among the [[nobility]] and [[gentry]], the average was around 19–21 for brides and 24–26 for grooms.<ref>Young, Bruce W. 2008. Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p 41</ref> Many city and townswomen married for the first time in their thirties and forties<ref>Coontz, Stephanie. 2005. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage. New York, New York: Viking Press, Penguin Group Inc.</ref> and it was not unusual for orphaned young women to delay marriage until the late twenties or early thirties to help support their younger siblings,<ref>Greer, Germaine Shakespeare's Wife, Bloomsbury 2007.</ref> and roughly a quarter of all English brides were pregnant at their weddings.<ref>Cressy. 1997. Pg 74</ref>