1. S.D. Amussen, “Gender, Family and the Social Order, 1560–1725”, in Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson, 196–217 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 196.
2. Linda J. Nicholson, Gender and History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 142.
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, trans. Barbara Foxley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1992), 326.
4. The narration of Caleb Williams shifts in the course of the novel. The story is partly told by another servant, Mr Collins (Volume 1), and partly by Caleb himself (Volumes 2 and 3). For more on the narrative structure of the novel, see Gerard A. Barker, “The Narrative Mode of Caleb Williams and Resolutions”, Studies in the Novel 25 (Spring 1993): 1–15.
5. Leon Radzinowicz, A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750 (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1948), 580–81.