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    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 5: Volume 5
    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 5: Volume 5
    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 5: Volume 5
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    Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was born in London on March 22nd 1808. One of three sisters famed for their beauty and talents they became known as ‘The Three Graces’. In 1817 her father died whilst serving as the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope and the family was left penniless but able to arrange a ‘grace and favour’ apartment at Hampton Court for several years. In 1827 Caroline married George Chapple Norton a barrister and Member of Parliament. Caroline used her beauty, wit, and political connections, to establish herself as a society hostess. Her unorthodox behaviour and candid conversation raised eyebrows among 19th-century British high society; ensuring enemies and admirers in equal measure. In spite of his jealousy and pride, Norton encouraged his wife to use her connections to advance his career. With her influence in 1831 he was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate. But their marriage proved unhappy. Norton was unsuccessful as a barrister and the couple fought bitterly over money. During these difficult years, Caroline turned to prose and poetry. Her first book, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. The Undying One (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew soon followed. By 1836, Caroline had left her husband and was living on her earnings as an author, but Norton claimed these, arguing in court that, as her husband, Caroline's earnings were legally his. Paid nothing by her husband, her earnings confiscated, Caroline used the law to her own advantage by running up bills in her husband's name and telling the creditors when they came to collect, that if they wished to be paid, they could sue her husband. Norton abducted their children and refused to tell Caroline of their whereabouts and accused her of an ongoing affair with her close friend, Lord Melbourne, the Whig Prime Minister. He demanded £10,000 from Melbourne, who refused to be blackmailed, and Norton took him to court. The trial lasted nine days, and victory was Melbourne’s. However, the publicity almost brought down the government. Caroline's reputation was ruined as was her friendship with Lord Melbourne. Vindictively Norton continued to prevent Caroline seeing her three sons, and blocked her from receiving a divorce. According to British law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father, and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody. In 1842 her son William was out riding and fell from his horse. According to Caroline, the wounds were minor; but not properly treated and blood-poisoning set in. Norton, realising that the child was near death, sent for Caroline but William died before she arrived in Scotland. Caroline became passionately involved in the passage of laws promoting social justice, especially those granting rights to married and divorced women. Her poems "A Voice from the Factories" (1836) and "The Child of the Islands" (1845) centred around her political views. Legally unable to divorce her husband, Caroline engaged in a five-year affair with prominent Conservative politician Sidney Herbert in the early 1840s. The affair ended with his marriage to another in 1846. With the death of George Norton in 1875 she married an old friend, Scottish historical writer and politician Sir W. Stirling Maxwell in March 1877. Caroline died in London three months later on June 15th.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateMay 7, 2014
    ISBN9781783944026
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      The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 5 - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

      The Poetry Of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Newton

      Volume 5 – The Lady of La Garaye

      Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was born in London on March 22nd 1808. One of three sisters famed for their beauty and talents they became known as ‘The Three Graces’

      In 1817 her father died whilst serving as the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope and the family was left penniless but able to arrange a ‘grace and favour’ apartment at Hampton Court for several years.

      In 1827 Caroline married George Chapple Norton a barrister and Member of Parliament.   Caroline used her beauty, wit, and political connections, to establish herself as a society hostess. Her unorthodox behaviour and candid conversation raised eyebrows among 19th-century British high society; ensuring enemies and admirers in equal measure.

      In spite of his jealousy and pride, Norton encouraged his wife to use her connections to advance his career. With her influence in 1831 he was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate.  But their marriage proved unhappy.  Norton was unsuccessful as a barrister and the couple fought bitterly over money.

      During these difficult years, Caroline turned to prose and poetry. Her first book, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. The Undying One (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew soon followed.

      By 1836, Caroline had left her husband and was living on her earnings as an author, but Norton claimed these, arguing in court that, as her husband, Caroline's earnings were legally his. Paid nothing by her husband, her earnings confiscated, Caroline used the law to her own advantage by  running up bills in her husband's name and telling the creditors when they came to collect, that if they wished to be paid, they could sue her husband.

      Norton abducted their children and refused to tell Caroline of their whereabouts and accused her of an ongoing affair with her close friend, Lord Melbourne, the Whig Prime Minister. He demanded £10,000 from Melbourne, who refused to be blackmailed, and Norton took him to court.

      The trial lasted nine days, and victory was Melbourne’s. However, the publicity almost brought down the government. Caroline's reputation was ruined as was her friendship with Lord Melbourne.

      Vindictively Norton continued to prevent Caroline seeing her three sons, and blocked her from receiving a divorce. According to British law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father, and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody.  In 1842 her son William was out riding and fell from his horse. According to Caroline, the wounds were minor; but not properly treated and blood-poisoning set in. Norton, realising that the child was near death, sent for Caroline but William died before she arrived in Scotland.

      Caroline became passionately involved in the passage of laws promoting social justice, especially those granting rights to married and divorced women. Her poems A Voice from the Factories (1836) and The Child of the Islands (1845) centred around her political views.

      Legally unable to divorce her husband, Caroline engaged in a five-year affair with prominent Conservative politician Sidney Herbert in the early 1840s. The affair ended with his marriage to another in 1846.

      With the death of George Norton in 1875 she married an old friend, Scottish historical writer and politician Sir W. Stirling Maxwell in March 1877. Caroline died in London three months later on June 15th.

      Index Of Poems

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Dedication

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Prologue

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Part I

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Part II

      The Lady Of La Garaye - A Threnody

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Part III

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Part IV

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Conclusion

      The Lady Of La Garaye - Dedication

      Friend of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife, 

      Patient and kind through many a wild appeal; 

      In the arena of thy brilliant life 

      Never too busy or too cold to feel: 

      Companion from whose ever teeming store 

      Of thought and knowledge, happy memory brings 

      So much of social wit and sage's lore, 

      Garnered and gleaned by me as precious things: 

      Kinsman of him whose very name soon grew 

      Unreal as music heard in pleasant dreams, 

      So vain the hope my girlish fancy drew, 

      So faint and far his vanished presence seems. 

      To thee I dedicate this record brief 

      Of foreign scenes and deeds too little known; 

      This tale of noble souls who conquered grief 

      By dint of tending sufferings not their own. 

      Thou hast known all my life: its pleasant hours, 

      (How many of them have I owed to thee!) 

      Its exercise of intellectual powers, 

      With thoughts of fame

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