Tom Sheridan

Standard Name: Sheridan, Tom

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Family and Intimate relationships Harriette Wilson
On the journey to Newcastle HW had begun a flirtation with the witty Tom Sheridan (born 1775, son of the playwright, grandson of Frances Sheridan , and father of Caroline Norton ). He and his...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
Tom Sheridan , father of Caroline (later CN ), died of tuberculosis at the Cape (now Cape Province) in South Africa while she was still a child.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817)
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
Tom Sheridan , CN 's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan , bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an...
Occupation Harriette Wilson
She may have had sexual relations with Sheridan ; but she left home (after another row with her father) and took her first step in her career as a courtesan by becoming Craven's mistress...
Residence Caroline Norton
The young Caroline Sheridan (later CN ) and her sisters were left with maternal aunts in Scotland while their parents went abroad, heading for the Cape of Good Hope in a desperate attempt to repair...

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