The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

by Diane Atkinson

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The biography of Caroline Sheridan Norton who was accused by her husband of "criminal conversation" (adultery) in Victorian England. After a not-guilty verdict humiliated her husband, Caroline was cut off, leaving her destitute and forbidden from seeing her sons. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.… (more)

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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

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Caroline Norton

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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For Pauline and Peter Tanner

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The twenty-second of June 1836, a warm drizzly day on London. (Prologue)

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan was born in London on 22 March 1808 to the sound of coughing.

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The biography of Caroline Sheridan Norton who was accused by her husband of "criminal conversation" (adultery) in Victorian England. After a not-guilty verdict humiliated her husband, Caroline was cut off, leaving her destitute and forbidden from seeing her sons. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.

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