Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | George Norton
, CN
's husband, took her three small sons away from her, apparently to prevent her from taking them on a promised visit to her brother Brinsley Sheridan
at Frampton Court in Dorset. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 103-4 Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988. 62 |
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. vii Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988. 63 Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | CN
and George Norton
finally executed a legal deed of separation: he did this in exchange for leave to mortgage a trust fund settled on her; she accepted, being desperate for money to visit her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | A case was tried between George Norton
and a creditor of CN
's (in essence a dramatic confrontation between husband and wife); this case heightened public feeling about married women's property law. Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988. 64 Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 232-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | CN
's estranged husband, George Norton
, died, almost fifty years after their marriage and forty after she had first attempted to leave him. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 282 Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII. xii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | The Act, however, applied to England and Wales only. George Norton
evaded it by taking his sons back to Scotland. When he brought them to Yorkshire, she had word of it and began to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | George Norton
proposed that in view of this money from her mother, he should drop the allowance he was bound to pay CN
from five hundred pounds to two. She refused, and he stopped payment... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Caroline Sheridan
married George Norton
at St George's, Hanover Square, London, out of a desire to relieve her mother of the financial burden of continuing to support her. Several sources, including the Dictionary of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | After parliament was dissolved, CN
's husband George
lost his seat in the election which followed. Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII. v |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | A pregnant CN
returned to George Norton
after having left him for a short time; by returning, she unwittingly lost any legal right to sue for divorce in the future. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 101-2 |
Leisure and Society | Caroline Norton | The recently married Queen Victoria
received CN
at Court: a testimony to belief in her innocence, in the face of George Norton
's attempts to blacken her reputation. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 169 |
politics | Caroline Norton | While denied access to her own children by her estranged husband
, CN
worked to gain support for the Infant Custody Bill (which passed in 1839). Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 171, 151-2, 179 |
politics | Caroline Norton | George Norton
was a Tory who had been a member of parliament since before his marriage. Tensions mounted between the couple when CN
, an ardent Whig, became active (in a letter-writing campaign, for instance)... |
politics | Caroline Norton | CN
's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton
drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Norton | Critic Harriet Devine Jump
feels that CN
's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne
contrast in tone with those she wrote later. Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 16 Mar. 2001. |
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