The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Antonia Fraser

Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474610940
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2021-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

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* By an Act of 1873, the mother was able to get custody up to the age of sixteen. It was not until the Guardianship of Infants Act 1925 that the law made men and women formally equal.

* Her husband was styled Lord Seymour at the time of their marriage until 1855, when he succeeded to the Dukedom of Somerset and Georgia became a Duchess.

PART THREE

HALF IN SHADE, HALF IN SUN

As half in shade, and half in sun,

This world along its course advances,

May that side the Sun’s upon

Be all that shall ever meet thy glances!

Tom Moore’s epigraph to The Child of the Islands, Caroline Norton, 1845

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