Life after George (1860-77). Caroline Sheridan and George Norton -- Wedding bells -- The Honourable Mr and Mrs Norton -- 1836: "Norty Mrs Norton" -- A large black slug in a damp wood -- The Infant Custody Act -- Wrangling, dangling and death -- A storm of expostulation (1843-51) -- "The clouded moon of the sun" (1851-9) -- Life after George (1860-77).
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.
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