Caroline Sheridan Norton
Personal Information
Description
An English social reformer and author of the early and mid-nineteenth century (Wikipedia).
Books
The separation of mother and child by the law of "Custody of Infants," considered
The Rose of Jericho
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill
The Laboring Classes of England: Especially Those Engaged in Agriculture and Manufactures; in a ...
A voice from the factories
"Caroline Norton - granddaughter of R. B. Sheridan, editor, contributor to literary annuals, friend of Lord Melbourne - was one of the most successful literary women of her day, a poet whose work has been strangely neglected. An unhappy marriage led to separation from her children, her anguish flowing into this anonymously-published testament to the abuse of child-labour. Poised between Wordsworth's appalled portrayal in the Excursion of the factory child, lungs filled with cotton fibres, and the more famous protests of the Victorian novel, the poem has brevity, political relevance, and force."--BOOK JACKET.