1. Two party papers' political coverage of women in the new republic
2. Barbara Berg, The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 18.
3. For a discussion of the literacy gap between American men and women, see Kenneth Lockridge, Literacy in Colonial New England (New York: W. W. Norton, 1974), pp. 38–44 and passim.