Women / Persons ~ P11442
Caroline Norton
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Alternate Names:
- Mrs. Norton
- Lady Stirling Maxell
- Lady Stirling Maxwell of Keir
- Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
- The Honourable Mrs. Norton
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877
Types:
- Activist, Women's Rights
- Beauty, celebrated
- Irish
- Reformer, political
- Society or High Rank
- Writer, Novel
- Writer, Poetry
Note: Irish type because five Irishwomen write about her, mostly in books claiming to be about Irishwomen. Granddaughter of playwright Sheridan; Did not campaign for equality of women, but for fair legal reform in matrimonial and custodial issues