Glossary
- boarded ’round sent to live in other households
- carding brushing fabric in order to disentangle fibers
- common law law based primarily on past legal judgments, rather than on statutes passed by a legislative body such as the U.S. Congress
- crabbed irritable, crabby
- elective franchise the right to vote
- electors elected representatives from each state whose vote, in the Electoral College, decides presidential elections
- enfranchisement provision of the right to vote
- engrossing preparing official documents according to precise legal procedures
- improvident unwilling or incapable of providing for the needs of those under one’s care
- Mary Wollstonecraft prominent English feminist (1759–1797) whose daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
- notaries public persons legally authorized to witness the signing of documents, administer oaths, and perform other duties
- per annum per year
- spinsterhood a term, common in the time before the...
