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NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (18o81877)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 797 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (18o81877) , afterwards Lady Stirling-Maxwell, English writer, was born in London in r8o8. One of the three beautiful granddaughters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, daughters of his son
Thomas
 , the " three Graces " of London society in the reign of George IV., she began to write before she was out of her teens. Her two sisters Helen and Georgina became respectively Lady Dufferin and duchess of Somerset. Lady Dufferin described the sisters to Disraeli with characteristic modesty. " Georgey's the beauty," she said, " and Carry's the wit, and I ought to be the good one, but I am not." At the age of seventeen, Caroline published amerry satire, The Dandies' Rout, illustrated by herself, and full of girlish high spirits and wit. Her first essay in serious verse was made in 1829 with The Sorrows of Rosalie, the next in 183o with The Undying One, a version of the legend of the Wandering Jew. She made an unfortunate
marriage
  in 1827 with the Hon. George Norton, brother of Lord Grantley. After
three years of protests on her part and good promises on his, she had left his
house
  for her sister's, had "condoned" on further good promises, and had returned, to find matters worse. The husband's persecutions culminated in 1836 in an action brought against Lord Melbourne for seduction of his wife, which the jury decided against Mr Norton without leaving the box. The case against Lord Melbourne was so weak that it was suggested that Norton
was urged to make the accusation by Melbourne's political enemies, in the
hope
  that the scandal would prevent him from being premier when the princess Victoria should succeed William IV. In 1853 legal proceedings between Mrs Norton and her husband were again entered on, because he not only failed to pay her allowance, but demanded the proceeds of her books. Mrs Norton made her own experience a plea for addressing to the queen in 1855 an eloquent
letter
  on the divorce laws, and her writings did much to ripen
opinion
  for changes in the legal status of married women. George
Meredith
 , in Diana of the Crossways, used her as the model for his " Diana." Mrs Norton was not a mere writer of elegant trifles, but was one of the priestesses of the " reforming " spirit; her Voice from the Factories (1836) was a most eloquent and rousing condemnation of child labour. The Dream, and other Poems appeared in 184o. Aunt Carry's
Ballads
  (1847), dedicated to her nephews and nieces, are written with charming tenderness and grace. Later in life she produced three novels, Stuart of Dunleath (1851), Lost and Saved (1863), and Old Sir Douglas (1868). Mrs Norton's last poem was the Lady of La Garaye (1862), her last publication the half-humorous, half-heroic story of The Rose of Jericho in 187o. She died on the 15th of June 1877. Mr Norton died in 1875; and Mrs Norton in the last year of her life married Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell.
See The Life of Mrs Norton, by Jane G. Perkins (1909).


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