Caroline Crampton

She didn’t go quietly: Caroline Norton’s campaign for married women’s rights

The 19th-century novelist who fought her husband for custody of her children and the right to her literary earnings is the subject of Antonia Fraser’s new biography

Engraving of Caroline Norton at the end of her life, having finally won ownership of her literary works. [Getty Images] 
issue 17 July 2021
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  • The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton, a 19th-century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

    Antonia Fraser

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 289, £25

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