Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts: Women & Children in the Long 18th Century

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The Beginning of the End of Coverture: A Reappraisal of the Married Woman's Separate Estate
Allison Anna Tait explains how the advancement of limited property rights for women allowed them to be seen as persons distinct from their husbands.
The Emancipation of Women in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
This article by Karl Heinz Goller appeared in Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, vol. 1983, no. 101, 1983, pp. 78–98.
The Laws of Infancy and Coverture (1816)
This legal manual by Peregrine Bingham lays out the legal status of children, and of married women who were regarded as minors under the authority and protection of their husbands with no legal identity of their own (coverture).
Literary Law Enforcement: Gender in Crime Ballads in Early Modern England
This article by Annie Tock appeared in 'Historia' 13 (2004).
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A digital copy of the 1792 first edition.
Women And Hysteria In the History Of Mental Health
An overview of the long history of hysteria as a disease ascribed only to women.