Betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely out of the nurses' charge.' that was about the next reference to the position of women is some two hundred years later. 'it was still the exception for women of the upper and middle class to choose their own husbands, and when the husband had been assigned, he was lord and master. yet even so, professor trevelyan concludes, 'neither shakespeare's women nor those of authentic seventeenth-century memoirs seem wanting in personality and character.' which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt to develop? o a. women were not respected in literature but were given enormous respect in real life. o b. women were represented as being weak in literature but were granted great power in real life. o c. women were not represented in literature but had great impact on society in real life. o d. women were represented as being strong in literature but were not allowed power in real life im