The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice
Title:
The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice
Author:
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- author.
ISBN:
9781639361571
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Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Description:
xvii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables ; 24 cm
General Note:
Note on names -- Family trees of Sheridans and Nortons -- Note on money -- Author's note -- Prologue. She does not exist -- Child in a dark wood -- 'Here she comes!' -- Melbourne's hat -- What Mr Norton liked -- Helpless -- Extraordinary trial -- Given against whom? -- Hungry for the children -- Woman's tears and the law -- Heavenly Norton -- Lost companions -- The name of writer -- Let him claim the copyright -- Reaping in joy? -- Nonna wants the pen -- Floated away from shore -- Epilogue. One of the little hinges.
Abstract:
Relates the story of nineteeth-century English poet Caroline Norton, who was denied access to her children by her husband after a sensational trial for adultery, and fought tirelessly for the rights of married women and mothers, resulting in the passage of the Infant Custody Act of 1839.
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