A very solid study that focuses on young women (post-pubescent but pre-marital, roughly 12-early 20s) in later medieval England. Kim Phillips explores the experiences of these "maidens" with care, and I appreciated how she walks the reader through her thinking about various sources. I could see this book being good to use in an undergraduate classroom to help students think through how to assess the actions of women who had agency but within a society where their actions were circumscribed by issues of gender and class. ( )