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    Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (née Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author....
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    and composed by noted Victorian society figure and social reformer Caroline Norton. Juanita was the first ballad by a woman composer to achieve massive...
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    The bill was greatly influenced by the reformist opinions of Caroline Norton. Norton had a failed marriage with her husband. Her pamphlets arguing for...
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    stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he stopped seeing Caroline Norton. As the historian Boyd Hilton concludes...
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    English villages called Norton or including Norton as part of the name, e.g. Midsomer Norton, Chipping Norton, Brize Norton etc. When surnames started...
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    also brother-in-law of writer Caroline Norton He was the son of Fletcher Norton MP FRSE (1744–1820) and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Balmain. His grandfather...
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  • Mary Mark (ed.). "Caroline Norton (1808-1877)". Penn Libraries (University of Pennsylvania). Retrieved October 17, 2009. Norton, Caroline. "A Letter to the...
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  • which was published in 1885, based on the life of socialite and writer Caroline Norton. Diana of the Crossways was first serialized in the Fortnightly in...
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    derived from their fathers or husbands. In the early nineteenth century, Caroline Norton, a prominent social reformer, author, journalist, and society beauty...
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  • Caroline Sheridan may refer to: Caroline Norton (1808–1877), née Sheridan, English social reformer and author Caroline Henrietta Sheridan (1779–1851),...
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  • writer Caroline Norton (1808–1877), English writer and social reformer Caroline Schelling (1763–1809), German intellectual and writer Caroline Schermerhorn...
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  • son of Fletcher Norton MP FRSE (1744–1820) and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Balmain. His younger brother was Charles Francis Norton. He was the husband...
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    authority of the Church, and from Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce. Caroline Norton, a campaigner for women's rights, supported the bill by writing a political...
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    when he triumphed in the adultery case brought against him concerning Caroline Norton—he had refused to permit Melbourne to resign when the case was first...
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    "Introduction" to The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. London, Penguin. "Caroline Norton: A Biographical Sketch", Dr Andrzej Diniejko. Victorian Web. Mark Wormald...
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    native land". —Caroline Norton, "Bingen on the Rhine", as quoted in "The Open Boat" "The Open Boat" directly references Lady Caroline Norton's 1883 poem "Bingen...
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  • the affair, but he did not, as he did in similar cases like that of Caroline Norton, publicly insist on the lady's innocence, although they remained friends...
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  • scientist (d. 1873) 1797 – William I, German Emperor (d. 1888) 1808 – Caroline Norton, English feminist, social reformer, and author (d. 1877) 1808 – David...
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    the wife of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, and sister of Caroline Norton, and she was proclaimed as the "Queen of Beauty".[unreliable source...
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  • The Chipping Norton set is a group of media, political and show-business acquaintances who have homes near the market town of Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire...
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    Stirling Maxwell married secondly noted author and society figure Caroline Norton, a granddaughter of the famous Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan...
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    Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km)...
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    "pure invention, containing a number of striking errors of fact." Caroline Norton, Elizabeth's granddaughter, discredited it in 1861, and Moore conceded...
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    James Joseph Norton (born 1967 or 1968) is an American comedian, radio personality, actor, author, and television and podcast host. Norton has been the...
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    nephew Thomas Brindsley Norton inherited the Estate. Thomas was the son of the famous social reformer and author Caroline Norton about whom many books have...
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    series that made up her books. For surviving female poets, such as Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lydia Sigourney and Frances Harper, the...
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  • and Claneboye; the feminist Caroline Norton; and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset. The only extant account of Caroline Sheridan's character is contained...
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    was the father of Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Norton and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset Elizabeth also had a daughter...
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  • an indirect result of the custody battle, the marchioness's friend Caroline Norton helped to push forward the passing of the Custody of Infants Act 1839...
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    Two (broadcast 18 January 2012). Retrieved 21 April 2022. Davies, Caroline; Norton-Taylor, Richard (28 February 2011). "SAS assist in evacuation of British...
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