Caroline Sheridan (later CN
) was sent to a boarding school at Shalford in Surrey (near Guildford) with her younger sister Georgy: presumably this had something to do with her being difficult.
Some sources give...
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Norton
Her friendship with Sidney Herbert
, an able, hard-working, high-principled, rising politician of about her own age, was regarded by her contemporaries as a love-affair, and her recent biographer Alan Chedzoy
agrees.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Literary responses
Caroline Norton
Alan Chedzoy
writes that Not lost but gone before was possibly the most famous of all Victorian ballads about death. . . . recited in later years in thousands of parlours.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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.
The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...
Textual Features
Caroline Norton
The engraved plates included portraits of aristocratic beauties and scenes of stately homes. The earlier of the two volumes for 1832 opened with Leaves of a Life; or, The Templar's Tale, signed Cxxxy (perhaps...
Textual Features
Caroline Norton
Biographer Alan Chedzoy
suggests that CN
fictionalises her own circumstances in both the long stories making up this work. The heroine of The Wife has married without love after being jilted by another man; her...
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Texts
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.