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See also:NORTON, See also:CAROLINE See also:ELIZABETH SARAH (18o8–1877) , afterwards See also:Lady See also:Stirling-See also:Maxwell, See also:English writer, was See also:born in See also:London in r8o8. One of the three beautiful granddaughters of See also:Richard Brinsley See also:Sheridan, daughters of his son See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, the " three See also:Graces " of London society in the reign of See also:George IV., she began to write before she was out of her teens. Her two sisters See also:Helen and Georgina became respectively Lady Dufferin and duchess of See also: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 See also:good one, but I am not." At the See also:age of seventeen, Caroline published amerry See also:satire, The Dandies' Rout, illustrated by herself, and full of girlish high See also:spirits and wit. Her first See also:essay in serious See also:verse was made in 1829 with The Sorrows of Rosalie, the next in 183o with The Undying One, a version of the See also:legend of the Wandering See also:Jew. She made an unfortunate See also:marriage in 1827 with the Hon. George Norton, See also:brother of See also:Lord See also:Grantley. After
three years of protests on her See also:part and good promises on his, she had See also:left his See also:house for her See also:sister's, had "condoned" on further good promises, and had returned, to find matters worse. The See also:husband's persecutions culminated in 1836 in an See also:action brought against Lord See also:Melbourne for See also:seduction of his wife, which the See also:jury decided against Mr Norton without leaving the See also:box. The See also:case against Lord Melbourne was so weak that it was suggested that Norton
was urged to make the See also:accusation by Melbourne's See also:political enemies, in the See also:hope that the See also:scandal would prevent him from being premier when the princess See also:Victoria should succeed See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. In 1853 legal proceedings between Mrs Norton and her husband were again entered on, because he not only failed to pay her See also:allowance, but demanded the proceeds of her books. Mrs Norton made her own experience a plea for addressing to the See also:queen in 1855 an eloquent See also:letter on the See also:divorce See also:laws, and her writings did much to ripen See also:opinion for changes in the legal status of married See also:women. George See also:Meredith, in See also:Diana of the Crossways, used her as the See also:model for his " Diana." Mrs Norton was not a See also:mere writer of elegant trifles, but was one of the priestesses of the " reforming " spirit; her See also:Voice from the Factories (1836) was a most eloquent and rousing condemnation of See also:child labour. The See also:Dream, and other Poems appeared in 184o. Aunt Carry's See also:Ballads (1847), dedicated to her nephews and nieces, are written with charming tenderness and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace. Later in See also:life she produced three novels, See also:Stuart of Dunleath (1851), Lost and Saved (1863), and Old See also:Sir See also:Douglas (1868). Mrs Norton's last poem was the Lady of La Garaye (1862), her last publication the See also:half-humorous, half-heroic See also:story of The See also:Rose of See also:Jericho in 187o. She died on the 15th of See also:June 1877. Mr Norton died in 1875; and Mrs Norton in the last See also:year of her life married Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell.
See The Life of Mrs Norton, by Jane G. See also:Perkins (1909).
End of Article: NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (18o8–1877)
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