Author: Jane Gray PerkinsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton
Author: Jane Gray PerkinsThe Life of Mrs. Norton
Author: Jane Gray PerkinsPublisher:
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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Life of Mrs. Norton
Author: Jane Gray PerkinsThe Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
Author: Diane AtkinsonPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613748833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the Honorable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and controlling lawyer, but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties, Caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic, and outrageous flirt. Her beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accuses Caroline and the Prime Minister of “criminal conversation” (adultery) precipitating Victorian England's “scandal of the century.” In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize events as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitute. Knowing she can not change her brutish husband's mind, Caroline resolves to change the law. Steeped in archival research that draws on more than 1,500 of Caroline's personal letters, The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhere. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.
Life of Lord Norton (Right Hon. Sir Charles Adderley, K. C. M. G., M. P.) 1814-1905
Author: William Shakespear Childe-PembertonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2596
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Book of the Poets
Author: The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton
Author: Ross NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000731979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.
The Readers' Guide and Students' Review
Author: Hampstead Public Libraries (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Works of Thackeray: Critical papers in literature
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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