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Author photo. Caroline Sheridan Norton; Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Caroline Sheridan Norton; Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Caroline Norton (1808–1877)

Author of Caroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century

Includes the names: Mrs Norton, Caroline Norton, Caroline E.S. Norton, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Caroline E. Sheridan Norton, Caroline E. S. Norton Norton

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Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (married)
Sheridan, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (born)
Stirling-Maxwell, Caroline (second marriage)
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Mrs. Norton
Hon. Mrs. Norton
Date of birth
1808-03-22
Date of death
1877-06-15
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female
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UK
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London, England (birth ∙ death)
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poet
women's rights activist
novelist
society hostess
social reformer
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (grandfather)
Sheridan, Frances (great-grandmother)
Le Fanu, Sheridan (second cousin)
Blackwood, Helen Selina Sheridan (sister)
Sheridan, Caroline Henrietta (mother)
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The poet and novelist Caroline Norton wrote and campaigned passionately for the enactment of laws granting rights to married and divorced women in Great Britain. Thanks largely to her efforts, Parliament passed the 1839 Infant Custody Bill and the 1857 Divorce Act. A friend of the writer George Meredith, Mrs. Norton served as the inspiration for Diana Warwick, the heroine of his 1885 novel Diana of the Crossways.
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