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.’
REFERENCES TO Lady Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton [née Sheridan]: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 5 May 1835 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 8 April 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 May 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Caroline Norton to John Murray, 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Dufferin, [August] 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 Caroline Norton to Samuel Rogers, 13 September 1842 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Death of Harriet Found 1: ¶ 14 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) W. H. Ainsworth Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1843 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 15 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 10 Douglas Jerrold Found 1: ¶ 20 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IX. 1820-1821. Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 2: ¶ 28 ¶ 48 Chapter VI. 1845-46. Found 3: ¶ 29 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Chapter VIII. 1850 Found 1: ¶ 13 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXIII. Found 8: ¶ 32 ¶ 36 ¶ 38 ¶ 39 ¶ 40 ¶ 41 ¶ 42 ¶ 43 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43 Found 1: ¶ 21 Chapter 23: 1853-54 Found 1: ¶ 39 Chapter 24: Conclusion Found 1: ¶ 15 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch XIII: 1835-36 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ n1 VII. Informers and Defamers Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 19 ¶ n2 ¶ n3