biography
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Norton, Caroline (Elizabeth Sarah)
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née Sheridan
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| female
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| lived:
| (1808–77)
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| biography:
| Writer and reformer, born in London, UK, the grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1827 she married a dissolute barrister, the Hon George Chapple Norton (1800–75), and had three sons. She took up writing to support the family, and published a successful book of verse, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829). In 1836 she separated from her husband, who brought an action of adultery against Lord Melbourne (which was defeated), obtained custody of the children, and tried to obtain the profit from her books. Her protests led to improvements in the legal status of women in relation to infant custody (1839) and marriage and divorce (1857). |
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