The case of the married woman : caroline norton and her fight for women's justice /
After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, the writer Caroline Norton attracted friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli and the widowed Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Racked with jealousy, George Norton took the Prime Minister to court, suing him...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2022.
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| Related Items: | Reproduction of (manifestation):
Case of the married woman. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : She does not exist
- Starry night. Child in a dark wood ; 'Here she comes!' ; Melbourne's hat ; What Mr. Norton liked
- Summer's gone. Helpless ; Extraordinary trial ; Given against whom? ; Hungry for the children ; Woman's tears and the law
- Half in shade, half in sun. Heavenly Norton ; Lost companions ; The name of writer ; Let him claim the copyright
- The winds of change. Reaping in joy? ; Nonna wants the pen ; Floated away from shore
- Epilogue : One of the little hinges.