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263: 44: 566:, notes that unlike in 1839 and 1857, Caroline played no part in campaigning for the 1870 Act. Under the Custody of Children Act, legally separated or divorced wives, provided they were not found guilty of criminal conversation, were granted the custody of their children up to the age of seven, and periodic access thereafter. The Act applied in England, Wales and Ireland only. While Caroline could have hoped for custody of her youngest son, and access to her older sons who were seven and ten when the Act was passed into law, her husband insisted that they stay in Scotland. 675:. He assembled a large collection of coins and grew orchids. John caused a scandal in 1879 by running off with another man's wife, the former Katharine McVickar, daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. The jilted husband was the 5th Lord Grantley's older cousin, Major Charles Grantley Campbell Norton. Katharine's marriage to Charles was annulled, and Katharine and John were married that November, five days before the birth of their first child. Despite her scandalous introduction to British society, Katharine went on to become a successful London hostess. 2295: 271: 507: 2250: 2169: 2184: 2269: 2196: 488:, "The fact is is a stupid brute, and had not temper nor dissimulation enough to enable her to manage him." Despite this admission, hoping to avert an even worse scandal, he pleaded with Caroline to return to George, insisting that "a woman should never part from her husband whilst she can remain with him." Lord Melbourne relented a few days later, stating that he understood her decision to leave: 519:
child was near death, sent for Caroline. Unfortunately, William died before she arrived in Scotland. Caroline blamed George for the child's death, accusing him of neglect. After William's death, George allowed Caroline to visit their sons, but he retained full custody and all of her visits were supervised.
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Caroline soon faced an additional tragedy; the death of her youngest son, William, in 1842. The child, out riding alone, fell from his horse and was injured. According to Caroline, the child's wounds were minor, but they were not properly treated and blood-poisoning set in. George, realising that the
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This conduct upon his part seems perfectly unaccountable...You know that I have always counselled you to bear everything and remain to the last. I thought it for the best. I am afraid it is no longer possible. Open breaches of this kind are always to be lamented, but you have the consolation that you
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In 1836, Caroline left her husband. She managed to subsist on her earnings as an author, but George claimed these as his, arguing this successfully in court. Paid nothing by her husband and her earnings confiscated, Norton used the law to her own advantage. Running up bills in her husband's name, she
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Despite his jealousy and pride, George encouraged his wife to use her ties to advance his career. It was through her influence that in 1831 he was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate. During these years, Caroline turned to prose and poetry as means of releasing her inner emotions and earning money.
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The Act gave married women, for the first time, a right to their children. However, because women needed to petition in the Court of Chancery, in practice few women had the financial means to exert their rights. The Matrimonial Causes Act reformed the law on divorce, among others making divorce more
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At the end of a nine-day trial, the jury threw out George's claim, siding with Melbourne, but the publicity almost brought down the government. The scandal eventually died, but not before Caroline's reputation was ruined and her friendship with Melbourne destroyed. George continued to keep Caroline
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During her early married years, Caroline used her beauty, wit and political ties to set herself up as a major society hostess. Her unorthodox behaviour and candid conversation raised many eyebrows in 19th-century English high society; she made enemies and admirers in almost equal measure. Among her
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Due to her dismal domestic situation, Caroline became deeply involved in the passage of laws promoting social justice, especially those granting rights to married and divorced women. Her poems "A Voice from the Factories" (1836) and "The Child of the Islands" (1845) centred on her political views.
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affordable, and established a model of marriage based on contract. The Married Women's Property Act 1870 allowed married women to inherit property and take court action on their own behalf. The Act granted married women in the UK, for the first time, a separate legal identity from their husband.
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Those dear children, the loss of whose pattering steps and sweet occasional voices made the silence of new home intolerable as the anguish of death...what I suffered respecting those children, God knows ... under the evil law which suffered any man, for vengeance or for interest, to take baby
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in 1838, she countered a claim that she was a "radical": "The natural position of woman is inferiority to man. Amen! That is a thing of God's appointing, not of man's devising. I believe it sincerely, as part of my religion. I never pretended to the wild and ridiculous doctrine of equality."
652:. Thomas also suffered from poor health, and spent much of his life as an invalid, reliant upon his mother for financial assistance. Despite this, he lived long enough to succeed his uncle as 4th Baron Grantley of Markenfield. Lord Grantley also predeceased his mother, dying in 1877. 379:. George was a jealous and possessive husband given to violent fits of drunkenness. The union quickly proved unhappy due to his mental and physical abuse. To make matters worse, George was unsuccessful as a barrister, and the couple fought bitterly over money. 942:, based on the novel by William Beckford, 1830. In the Notes & Queries issue of March 2017, 86–95 ("The Lost Manuscript of Caroline Norton's Vathek"), Robert J. Gemmett provides compelling evidence that Caroline's manuscript of this play may have survived. 534:
If her husband take proceedings for a divorce, she is not, in the first instance, allowed to defend herself...She is not represented by attorney, nor permitted to be considered a party to the suit between him and her supposed lover, for "damages."
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An English wife may not leave her husband's house. Not only can he sue her for restitution of "conjugal rights," but he has a right to enter the house of any friend or relation with whom she may take refuge...and carry her away by force...
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Although the jury found her friend not guilty of adultery, she failed to gain a divorce and was denied access to her three sons due to the laws at the time which favoured fathers. Norton's campaigning led to the passage of the
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from seeing her three sons and blocked her from receiving a divorce. Under English law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody.
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22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, in 1836. Her husband then sued her close friend
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When Parliament debated divorce reform in 1855, Caroline submitted to members a detailed account of her own marriage, and described the difficulties faced by women as the result of existing laws.
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If an English wife be guilty of infidelity, her husband can divorce her so as to marry again; but she cannot divorce the husband, a vinculo, however profligate he may be....
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While Caroline fought to extend women's legal rights, she eschewed further social activism and had no interest in the 19th-century women's movement on issues such as
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Prime Minister. Initially, George demanded £10,000 from Melbourne, but Melbourne refused to be blackmailed and George instead took the Prime Minister to court.
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The combined beauty and accomplishments of the Sheridan sisters led to their being collectively referred to as the Three "Graces". The eldest,
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In 1854, her remaining son, Thomas Brinsley Norton, married a young Italian, Maria Chiara Elisa Federigo, whom he met in
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Not long after their separation, George abducted their sons, hiding them with relatives in Scotland and later in
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Mainly through Caroline's intense campaigning, which included a letter to Queen Victoria, Parliament passed the
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The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton : a 19th century heroine who wanted justice for women
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A Review of the Divorce Bill of 1856, with propositions for an amendment of the laws affecting married persons
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told the creditors when they came to collect, that if they wished to be paid, they could sue her husband.
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marking her central London home for over 30 years. It was unveiled on 3 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair by
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in the early 1840s, but Herbert married another woman in 1846. In middle age, she befriended the author
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The case of the married woman: Caroline Norton: a 19th century heroine who wanted justice for women
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Watercolour sketch of Caroline Norton by Emma Fergusson 1860, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
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Family Life in the Nineteenth Century, 1789–1913: The History of the European family
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In 1817, her father died in South Africa while serving as colonial secretary at the
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A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage & Divorce Bill
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Portrait engraving of Caroline Norton from the frontispiece of one of her books
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announced that Caroline was one of six women to be honoured that year with a
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Separation of Mother and Child by the Laws of Custody of Infants Considered
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Traitors to the Masculine Cause: The Men's Campaigns for Women's Rights
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have done your utmost to stave this extremity off as long as possible.
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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
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at British History > Women's Suffrage (Spartacus-Educational.com)
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Caroline is said to have had a five-year affair with a prominent
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A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill
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To Marry an English Lord: Or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
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in Paris at the age of 30. She was devastated by the loss.
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in March 1877. Caroline died in London three months later.
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Until They Are Seven, The Origins of Women's Legal Rights
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friends were literary and political luminaries such as
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Reynolds, K. D. "Norton , Caroline Elizabeth Sarah".
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From 1832 to 1837, she edited 435:(1830), a romance founded on the legend of the 1680: 1678: 1391: 1389: 1277: 1067: 1053: 27:English social reformer and writer (1808–1877) 1787: 1785: 1710: 1708: 1485: 1483: 1227: 1225: 1037: 1035: 1033: 1031: 1029: 1027: 1025: 961:by a woman composer to achieve massive sales. 1204: 1002:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 1977:The Criminal Conversation is of Mrs Norton. 1675: 1587: 1405: 1403: 1401: 1386: 1379: 1377: 1375: 1373: 340:. Through her, Caroline became the aunt of 2293: 2039:Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Norton, 1782: 1731: 1729: 1705: 1480: 1222: 1156: 1154: 1022: 558:, which she worked on with the suffragist 42: 1645:"The Transfigurations of Caroline Norton" 636: 510:Caroline Norton, detail of a portrait by 417:William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire 315:Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 166:Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet 2414:British women dramatists and playwrights 1602: 1398: 1370: 1089: 505: 313:. His family was left almost penniless. 269: 261: 2319:, with 66 library catalogue records 2022:. Volume 2. Yale University Press, 2002 1726: 1671:– via Cambridge University Press. 1606:The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton 1151: 1099:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1083: 999:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 356:, seen as the prettiest, later married 155: 1827; died 1875) 14: 2331: 2056:The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton 1516: 1335: 1258: 991: 989: 761: 596:. In fact, in an article published in 442:The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée 278:Caroline Norton was born in London to 1642: 812: 501: 358:Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset 257: 2424:William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 2374:19th-century British women composers 2235:Discussion of Caroline Norton's life 2029:. New York, Workman Publishing, 1999 1896: 1249:Perkins, pp. 19, 26, 48, 84 and 178. 995: 2323:Caroline Sheridan Norton Collection 2025:Gail MacColl and Carol M. Wallace, 1643:Dolin, Kieran (22 September 2002). 1468:Mitchell, pp. 223–224, 226 and 228. 1459:Mitchell, pp. 221–224, 226 and 228. 986: 973:We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet 24: 2384:English people of Scottish descent 2354:19th-century English women writers 2099:. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002 2071:Road to Divorce: England 1530–1987 25: 2435: 2251:Works by or about Caroline Norton 2103: 861:Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children 556:Married Women's Property Act 1870 242:. She modelled for the fresco of 240:Married Women's Property Act 1870 62:Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan 2267: 2194: 2182: 2167: 2089:. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951 1979:London, Preface Publishing, 2012 1649:Victorian Literature and Culture 678: 665:Society of Antiquaries of London 461:Separation and Melbourne scandal 2307:"A Health to the Outward Bound" 2189:Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 2086:Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910 2073:. Oxford University Press, 1990 2066:. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987 2036:. Oxford University Press, 1997 1941: 1916: 1897:Cope, Rebecca (29 April 2021). 1890: 1864: 1839: 1830: 1821: 1812: 1803: 1794: 1773: 1747: 1738: 1717: 1696: 1687: 1636: 1627: 1596: 1562: 1539: 1510: 1501: 1492: 1471: 1462: 1453: 1444: 1435: 1426: 1329: 1311: 1302: 1293: 1252: 1243: 1234: 1181: 1172: 1163: 837:The Undying One and Other Poems 421:Tolpuddle Martyrs protest march 332:, was a songwriter who married 325:" apartment for several years. 177: 152: 18:Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 2369:19th-century English novelists 2359:19th-century English composers 2217:A Celebration of Women Writers 1138: 1129: 1093:"Sheridan, Thomas (1775–1817)" 1044: 13: 1: 2213:"Caroline Norton (1808–1877)" 1986:Oxford University Press, 1997 1959: 1809:MacColl, pp. 239–240 and 342. 1323:The Brownings' Correspondence 903:The Wife, and Woman's Reward, 885:We Have Been Friends Together 606: 375:, and the younger brother of 2219:, U. of Pennsylvania Library 2158:Resources in other libraries 2134:Resources in other libraries 1984:English Feminism, 1780–1980, 1123:UK public library membership 1090:Jeffares, A. Norman (2004). 1016:UK public library membership 753:Resources in other libraries 729:Resources in other libraries 338:Baron Dufferin and Claneboye 284:Caroline Henrietta Callander 125:Lady Stirling-Maxwell (1877) 7: 2301:"Juanita: a Spanish ballad" 2266:(public domain audiobooks) 1548:Caroline Norton (1808–1877) 1290:Woodham-Smith, pp. 220–221. 965: 552:Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 548:Custody of Infants Act 1839 431:(1829), was well received. 236:Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 232:Custody of Infants Act 1839 197:Caroline Henrietta Sheridan 10: 2440: 2364:19th-century English poets 1661:10.1017/S1060150302302079h 957:, 1855: Notably the first 849:The Dream, and Other Poems 768:A Voice from the Factories 673:British Numismatic Society 542:children from the mother. 445:. In 1843, she petitioned 346:Governor General of Canada 2153:Resources in your library 2129:Resources in your library 2034:Lord Melbourne, 1779–1848 2009:The Records of a Girlhood 1693:Caine, pp. 57, 66 and 68. 1432:Perkin, pp. 26–28 and 96. 1395:Perkin, pp. 28 and 72–73. 890: 748:Resources in your library 724:Resources in your library 562:. One recent biographer, 292:Richard Brinsley Sheridan 188: 129: 121: 110: 102: 86: 57: 41: 34: 2313:Caroline Sheridan Norton 2275:Works by Caroline Norton 2260:Works by Caroline Norton 1609:. Random House. p.  1603:Atkinson, Diane (2012). 1336:Fraser, Antonia (2021). 1259:Fraser, Antonia (2021). 979: 946: 927: 855:The Child of the Islands 669:Royal Numismatic Society 484:Lord Melbourne wrote to 457:, but was unsuccessful. 2409:British women essayists 2394:Victorian women writers 2379:English women novelists 2080:. Greenwood Press, 1982 1800:MacColl pp. 239 and 342 1050:Perkins, pp. 1–2 and 5. 698: 631:Sir W. Stirling Maxwell 577:finished his fresco of 2187:Quotations related to 2012:. New York, Holt, 1879 1450:Mitchell, pp. 223–224. 1367:Mitchell, pp. 221–223. 1231:Woodham-Smith, p. 220. 1201:Scott-Kilvert, p. 614. 1108:10.1093/ref:odnb/25372 1008:10.1093/ref:odnb/20339 873:The Centenary Festival 663:, and a Fellow of the 637:Family and descendants 626:Diana of the Crossways 544: 515: 495: 429:The Sorrows of Rosalie 352:. 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Index

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Sir George Hayter
London
England
Social reformer
George Chapple Norton
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet
Thomas Sheridan
Caroline Henrietta Sheridan
Lord Melbourne
Whig
criminal conversation
Custody of Infants Act 1839
Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
Married Women's Property Act 1870
House of Lords
Daniel Maclise


Thomas Sheridan
Caroline Henrietta Callander
Whig
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Elizabeth Ann Linley
Irish peer
Marquess of Antrim
Cape of Good Hope
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Hampton Court Palace

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