Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton
Author: Ross NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000414035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
As the first nineteenth century woman to successfully campaign for women’s rights legislation, Caroline Norton has been comparatively neglected and under-researched. There is, however, a current and growing interest in her life and work. This is a new three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton. The collection includes over 750 of her letters and also features an introduction by the editors, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.
The Case of the Married Woman
Author: Antonia FraserPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639361588
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Award-winning historian Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a courageous and compassionate woman who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints of her time. Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her intelligence, her poetry, and in her role as an artist's muse. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli. Most prominent among her admirers was the widowed Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Racked with jealousy, George Norton took the Prime Minister to court, suing him for damages on account of his 'Criminal Conversation' (adultery) with Caroline. A dramatic trial followed. Despite the unexpected and sensational result—acquittal—Norton was still able to legally deny Caroline access to her three children, all under seven. He also claimed her income as an author for himself, since the copyrights of a married woman belonged to her husband. Yet Caroline refused to despair. Beset by the personal cruelties perpetrated by her husband and a society whose rules were set against her, she chose to fight, not surrender. She channeled her energies in an area of much-needed reform: the rights of a married woman and specifically those of a mother. Over the next few years she campaigned tirelessly, achieving her first landmark victory with the Infant Custody Act of 1839. Provisions which are now taken for granted, such as the right of a mother to have access to her own children, owe much to Caroline, who was determined to secure justice for women at all levels of society from the privileged to the dispossessed.
The Transition from Aristocracy, 1832-1867
Author: Octavius Francis ChristiePublisher: London Seeley, Service 1927.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Life of Edward Bulwer
Author: Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton Earl of LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914
Author: Verlyn KlinkenborgPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241258
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
19th-century British culture in the autograph hand. Original manuscripts of Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, etc. Commentary.
The Unreformed House of Commons
Author: Edward PorrittCatalogue of the Lending Department of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London
Author: Corporation of London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Unreformed House of Commons
Author: Annie Gertrude PorrittPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Unreformed House of Commons
Author: Edward PorrittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107641616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Originally published in 1903, this two-volume work examines the changes in Parliamentary representation in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the time that the House of Commons in England began to have a continuous existence until the Reform Act of 1832. Volume Two focuses on the representation of Scotland and Ireland and issues such as the disenfranchisement and re-enfranchisement of the Roman Catholic population. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of British government and popular representation.