Section outline

    • ·      Mary Wollstonecraft, "Introduction," A Vindication of the Rights of Women with Stricture on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)

    • Nicola Phillips, ch. 2, “Legal fictions vs. legal facts: Common law, coverture and 
      married women in business” (pp. 23-47) 

    • Fiona Montgomery, Women's Rights:  Struggles and Feminism in Britain c. 1770-1970 (2006) chapter 1, "Women and the Law," pp. 1-32

    • 1753: 26 Geo. 2 c.33: Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act

      aka Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753, Alsatia




    • Illustration by William Blake for Mary Wollstonecraft's "Original Stories" (1791)

    • "The love story that shocked the world," BBC News

    • Sylvana Tomaselli, ed., Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men (CUP 1995)