The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton
The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton

Author: Ross Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 1000731995

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This is the third volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period February 1858-June 1877. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Author: Diane Atkinson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1409051889

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Caroline Norton, born in 1808, was a society beauty, poet and pamphleteer. Her good looks and wit attracted many male admirers, first her husband, the Honourable George Norton, and then the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accused Caroline and the Prime Minister of a ‘criminal conversation’ (adultery) resulting in a trial referred to as ‘the scandal of the century’. Cut off and bankrupted by George Norton, she went on to become one of the most important figures in changing the law for wives and mothers.