![]() ![]() ![]() She struggles with things modern readers can relate to: obeying parents, accepting societal expectations, and crafting her own identity. She tells us all about it, and Medieval life, in the diary she keeps at the behest of her beloved brother Edward, a monk at a nearby monastery.Ĭatherine is an intelligent, spunky character who's way ahead of her time. Catherine will concoct any plan and pull any prank to keep herself from this fate, sometimes with hilarious results. But Catherine wants nothing to do with this, and she certainly doesn't want her blowhard father to marry her off to a rich, ugly, unpleasant baron. Thus, she's already expected to act like an adult as her mother trains her to become a lady of the manor. Thirteen-year-old Catherine is growing up in 1290 England. ![]()
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