1. Molly Lefebure, The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (New York: Norton, 1986), pp. 52–53, believes that they were exultantly happy.
2. Lawrence Stone, The Road to Divorce (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 26.
3. Keith Thomas, “The Double Standard,” Journal of the History of Ideas 20, 1 (1959), 195–216, cites prostitution, divorce, and the laws related to property of married persons as the chief categories for the exercise of the double standard.
4. Debbie Lee, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) sets this disturbing aspect of Romanticism in a philosophical context of looking at alterity;
5. Jon-Christian Suggs, Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 19–30, uses the words of slaves to describe what it feels like to be property;