Court of Common Pleas

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
George Norton initiated divorce proceedings by bringing an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Lord Melbourne , then the Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (i.e. adultery) with CN .
Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
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Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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7 November 1868: Women who claimed their right to vote lost...

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7 November 1868

Women who claimed their right to vote lost in the case of Chorlton v. Lings, heard by the Court of Common Pleas .
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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