Lady Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton [née Sheridan]

(1808-1877)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877 NRA: Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (1808-1877) nee Sheridan, Poet and Campaigner for Women's Rights DNB: Norton [née Sheridan], Caroline Elizabeth Sarah [other married name Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Stirling Maxwell, Lady Stirling Maxwell] (1808-1877), author and law reform campaigner LBT ID: CaNorto1877 VIAF ID: 76361166 LOC ID: n50081515	B/BAP: 1808-03-22 DIED: 1877-06-15
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English poetess and novelist, daughter of Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817), who unhappily married the Hon. George Chapple Norton in 1827; she was known as ‘the female Byron.’
CORRESPONDENCE OF Lady Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton [née Sheridan]: Caroline Norton to John Murray, 2 August 1834 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) John Murray to Caroline Norton, 8 August 1836 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to John Murray, 19 October 1836 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to John Murray, 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Caroline Norton to Samuel Rogers, 8 October [1842] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Caroline Norton to Samuel Rogers, 13 September 1842 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)