Caroline Norton
Caroline Norton
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nortonwas an English social reformer, and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century. Caroline left her husband in 1836, following which her husband sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation. The jury threw out the claim, but Caroline was unable to obtain a divorce and was denied access to her three sons. Caroline's intense campaigning led to the passing of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 March 1808
innocent pleasure made
God made all pleasures innocent.
life-and-death gone world
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.