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Author: sir William Stirling- Maxwell (9th bart.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Sons of the Holy land [by W. Stirling].
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Author: sir William Stirling- Maxwell (9th bart.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Scottish Nation
Author: William AndersonPublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author: The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British Literature
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: 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.
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