NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877 NRA: Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (1808-1877) nee Sheridan, Poet and Campaigner for Women's Rights DNB: Norton [née Sheridan], Caroline Elizabeth Sarah [other married name Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Stirling Maxwell, Lady Stirling Maxwell] (1808-1877), author and law reform campaigner LBT ID: CaNorto1877 VIAF ID: 76361166 LOC ID: n50081515 | B/BAP: 1808-03-22 DIED: 1877-06-15 |
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English poetess and novelist, daughter of Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817), who unhappily
married the Hon. George Chapple Norton in 1827; she was known as ‘the female Byron.’ | |