1. Antonia Castaneda, PhD dissertation, Presidarias Y Pobladoras: Spanish-Mexican Women in Frontier Monterey, Alta California, 1770-1821 , (Ann Arbor, Michigan: U.M.I., 1990) Castaneda's study concentrates on Spanish-Mexican women in the context of U.S. social, women's, Chicano, borderlands and family history.
2. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, editors,Women and Power in American History (New Jersey:Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1991), 1-2. 14. Sklar's collection focuses on women in the eastern United States.
3 . Silvia Marina Arrom, The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1985), referenced for background material; Asuncion Lavrin, editor, Sexuality & Marriage in Colonial Latin America (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1989); Luis Martinez, Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1983); Jeanette Rodriguez, Our Lady Of Guadalupe, (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994); Rosaura Sanchez, Telling Identities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).
4. Richard Griswold del Castillo, "Patriarchy and the Status of Women," The Mexican and Mexican American Experience in the 19th Century, edited by Jaime E. Rodriguez (Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1989); Salome Hernandez, "No Settlement without Women: Three Spanish California Settlement Schemes, 1790-1800," Southern California Quarterly (Fall 1995); Gloria Miranda, "Hispano-Mexican Child-Rearing Practices in Pre-American Santa Barbara," Southern California Quarterly 65 (Winter 1983); Donald Nuttall, "The Señoras Gobernadoras of Spanish Alta California," unpublished manuscript, Santa Barbara Presidio Museum Archives.
5. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California vol. 1-7 (San Francisco: The History Company, (1886-88); Charles Chapman, The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783, (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1916); Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, ed. History of California 5 vols. (New York: Century Company, 1915); Theodore S. Hittel, History of California 4 vols. (San Francisco: N.J. Stone, 1897-98).
6. Apolinaria Lorenzana, Memorias de Dona Apolinaria Lorenzana, Mayo de 1878, Santa Barbara. Several English translations of Apolinaria's memories have been done including one by Paula Oden, an unpublished manuscript at the San Diego Historical Society Archives. Juana Machado de Ridington, Los tiempos pasados de la Alta California: Recuerdos de la Sra. Dona Juana Machado de Ridington. Translated and annotated by Raymond S. Brandes. Historical Society of Southern California 41 (September 1959); Felipa Osuna de Marron, Recuerdos de Dona Felipa Osuna de Marron, Manuscript Collection. Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; Eulalia Perez, Una Vieja y Sus Recuerdos, 1877, Mission San Gabriel, translated and published in Missions of California (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972) 14-25; Catalina Avila de Rios, Recuerdos Historicos de California, Santa Clara, Junio 20 de 1877. Manuscript Collection. Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; Dorotea Valdez, Reminiscences of Dorotea Valdez, Monterey, California, 27 June 1874. Manuscript Collection. Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; Rosalia Vallejo de Leese, "History of the Bear Flag Party," Manuscript Collection. Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
7. Edna Deu Pree Nelson, The California Dons (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962); Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, Spanish Arcadia (San Francisco: Powell Publishing Co., 1929).
8. I have visited the Bancroft Library, Santa Barbara Mission Archives, Santa Barbara Museum Library, Santa Barbara Presidio Museum Research Center, Huntington Library, San Diego Historical Society Archives, San Diego Public Library California Room, University of San Diego Copley Library, Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeology Laboratory, San Diego State University Library.