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The Case of the Married Woman - Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women (Hardcover)
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The Case of the Married Woman - Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women (Hardcover)
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'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past
popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few
equals' Sunday Times CAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine
who wanted justice for women. Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse,
Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her
vivacity and intelligence. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP
George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her
salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli. Most
prominent among her admirers was the widowed Prime Minister, Lord
Melbourne. Racked with jealousy, George Norton took the Prime
Minister to court, suing him for damages on account of his
'Criminal Conversation' (adultery) with Caroline. A dramatic trial
followed. Despite the unexpected and sensational result - acquittal
- Norton legally denied Caroline access to her three children under
seven. He also claimed her income as an author for himself, since
the copyrights of a married woman belonged to her husband. Yet
Caroline refused to despair. Beset by the personal cruelties
perpetrated by her husband and a society whose rules were set
against her, she chose to fight, not surrender. She channelled her
energies in an area of much-needed reform: the rights of a married
woman and specifically those of a mother. Over the next few years
she campaigned tirelessly, achieving her first landmark victory
with the Infant Custody Act of 1839. Provisions which are now taken
for granted, such as the right of a mother to have access to her
own children, owe much to Caroline, who was determined to secure
justice for women at all levels of society from the privileged to
the dispossessed. Award-winning historian Antonia Fraser
brilliantly portrays a woman, at once courageous and compassionate,
who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints
of her time.
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