Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Who is Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (adultery). The jury threw out the claim, but she failed to gain a divorce and was denied access to her three sons. Norton's campaigning led to the passage of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. She modelled for the fresco of Justice in the House of Lords by Daniel Maclise, who chose her as a famous victim of injustice.
Youth and marriage
Caroline Norton was born in London to Thomas Sheridan and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callan...
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems
- The Fallen Leaves
I.
WE stand among the fallen leaves,
Young children at our play,
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- Sonnet Ii
RAPHAEL.
BLESS'D wert thou, whom Death, and not Decay,
Bore from the world on swift and shadowy wings,
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- Old Friends
HOW are they waned and faded from our hearts,
The old companions of our early days!
Of all the many loved, which name imparts
Regret when blamed, or rapture at its praise?
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- The Winter-s Walk
MARK'D--as the hours should be, Fate bids us spend
With one illustrious, or a cherish'd friend--
Rich in the value of that double claim,
Since Fame allots the friend a Poet's name,--
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- To Ferdinand Seymour
ROSY child, with forehead fair,
Coral lip, and shining hair,
In whose mirthful, clever eyes
Such a world of gladness lies;
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- Plastic_bio: o twilight! spirit that dost render birthto dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth,leaving on craggy hills and running streamsa softness like the atmosphere of dreams.
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- Plastic_bio: too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—oh friend, i fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.
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