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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Atkinson, Diane.     Subjects     Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877.     Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877 -- Political and social views.     Feminists -- England -- Biography.     Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Atkinson, Diane.       by title:      The criminal convers...         MARC Display

The criminal conversation of Mrs. Norton : Victorian England's "scandal of the century" and the fallen socialite who changed women's lives forever / Diane Atkinson. by Atkinson, Diane. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2013. Subjects Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877.   Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877 -- Political and social views.   Feminists -- England -- Biography.   Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781613748800 (hbk.) 1613748809 Description:  486 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. chart ; 24 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  The biography of Caroline Sheridan Norton who was accused by her husband of "criminal conversation" (adultery) in Victorian England. After a not-guilty verdict humiliated her husband, Caroline was cut off, leaving her destitute and forbidden from seeing her sons. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.42092 Norton At Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.42092 Norton At Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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