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Caroline Norton, the Glossary

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (née Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.^[1]

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19th-century British women composers
19th-century English composers

Abraham Hayward

Abraham Hayward Q.C. (22 November 1801 – 2 February 1884) was an English writer and translator.

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Anne Wignall

Anne Wignall, known as Baroness Ebury and Lady Ebury (née Acland-Troyte; 12 June 1912 – 23 June 1982), was an English socialite and author known as Alice Acland and Anne Marreco.

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Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. Caroline Norton and Antonia Fraser are English women novelists.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Barbara Bodichon

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.

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Baron Dufferin and Claneboye

Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh in County Down, Northern Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Baron Grantley

Baron Grantley, of Markenfield, in the County of York is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Caroline Norton and Benjamin Disraeli are 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century English novelists and 19th-century English poets.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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British Numismatic Society

The British Numismatic Society exists to promote the study and understanding of British numismatics.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Caroline Henrietta Sheridan

Caroline Henrietta Sheridan (née Callander; 1779 – 9 June 1851) was an English novelist of the 19th century. Caroline Norton and Caroline Henrietta Sheridan are 19th-century English novelists, 19th-century English women writers and English women novelists.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Criminal conversation

At common law, criminal conversation, often abbreviated as crim.

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Custody of Infants Act 1839

The Custody of Infants Act 1839 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Daniel Maclise

Daniel Maclise (25 January 180625 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.

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David I. Kertzer

David Israel Kertzer (born February 20, 1948) is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy.

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Diana of the Crossways

Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885, based on the life of socialite and writer Caroline Norton. Caroline Norton and Diana of the Crossways are feminism and history.

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Diane Atkinson

Diane Atkinson is a British historian and writer about women in history including the suffragettes, most recently for the centenary of women getting the vote in the United Kingdom, covering the detailed experiences of campaigning women in Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes.

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Earl of Antrim

Earl of Antrim is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland and both times for members of the MacDonnell family, originally of Scottish origins.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. Caroline Norton and Edward Bulwer-Lytton are 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights and 19th-century English novelists.

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Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny (13 November 179213 August 1881) was a British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Caroline Norton and Edward John Trelawny are 19th-century English novelists.

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Edward St Maur, 12th Duke of Somerset

Edward Adolphus St.

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Elizabeth Ann Linley

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (September 1754 – 28 June 1792) was an English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Fanny Kemble

Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 180915 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. Caroline Norton and Fanny Kemble are 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century English poets, 19th-century English women writers, Victorian women writers and Victorian writers.

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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, (21 June 182612 February 1902), was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society.

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George Chapple Norton

George Chapple Norton (31 August 1800 – 24 February 1875) was a Tory Member of Parliament for Guildford from 1826 to 1830.

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George Hayter

Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was an English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving sometimes several hundred individual portraits.

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George Meredith

George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Caroline Norton and George Meredith are 19th-century English novelists and 19th-century English poets.

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Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset

Jane Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Sheridan; 5 November 1809 – 14 December 1884), was the wife of Edward, Duke of Somerset.

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Governor General of Canada

The governor general of Canada (gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal representative of the.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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Grace and favour

A grace-and-favour home is a residential property owned by a monarch by virtue of his or her position as head of state and leased, often rent-free, to persons as part of an employment package or in gratitude for past services rendered.

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Great Lives

Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol.

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Guildford (UK Parliament constituency)

Guildford is a constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Zöe Franklin, a Liberal Democrat.

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (née Sheridan, 18 January 1807 – 13 June 1867), later Countess of Gifford, was an Irish songwriter, composer, poet, and author. Caroline Norton and Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye are 19th-century British women composers, Victorian women writers and Victorian writers.

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Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, FSA, FRNS (1 October 1855 – 5 August 1943), was a British peer from an English landowning family.

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Juanita (song)

"Juanita" ("Nita Juanita") is a love song variously subtitled "A Spanish Ballad", "A Song of Spain", and others.

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La Belle Assemblée

La Belle Assemblée (in full La Belle Assemblée or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies) was a British women's magazine published from 1806 to 1837, founded by John Bell (1745–1831).

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Leopold I of Belgium

Leopold I (Léopold; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first King of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Marilyn Yalom

Marilyn Yalom (March 10, 1932 – November 20, 2019) was a feminist author and historian.

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Married Women's Property Act 1870

The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. Caroline Norton and Mary Shelley are 19th-century English novelists, 19th-century English women writers and English women novelists.

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Matrimonial Causes Act 1857

The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Numismatist

A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma).

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Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister.

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Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye

Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (6 May 1794 – 21 July 1841) was the third and eldest surviving son of Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye and his first wife Mehetabel Hester Temple, daughter of Robert Temple.

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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Reformism (historical)

Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey (or; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.

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Royal Numismatic Society

The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics.

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Samuel Rogers

Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. Caroline Norton and Samuel Rogers are 19th-century English poets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Norton

Also known as Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Maxwell, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Mrs Norton.

, Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Naples, Numismatist, Peerage of Ireland, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Queen Victoria, Reformism (historical), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Robert Peel, Robert Southey, Royal Numismatic Society, Samuel Rogers, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, Society of Antiquaries of London, The Guardian, The Times, Thomas Sheridan (soldier), Tuberculosis, Wandering Jew, We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet, Whigs (British political party), William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Women's suffrage, Yorkshire.

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See also

19th-century British women composers

19th-century English composers

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