Thread: Embarking on womanhood

Hi everybody.

Can you help me please? I need to traslate this: "embarking on womanhood".

This is the context:
...A couple of months later I returned to Lancashire, and looked for my friends. I heard that Anne was dead. I could not believe it. During the years I had known her she had seemed bursting with zest. Could that fine person, embarking on womanhood, truly have been snuffed out? What demonic bug could have overwhelmed her vital spark?...

Thanks!