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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton: Victorian England's "Scandal of the Century" and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Women's Lives Forever
By Atkinson, Diane
- ISBN
- 9781613748800
- Publisher
- Chicago Review
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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Atkinson's (The Suffragettes in Pictures; Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick; Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front) well-researched but somewhat dull history tells of the relatively unknown 19th-century British feminist Mrs. Caroline Norton. This scholarly work chronicles the scandalous 1836 trial in which George Norton, a barrister, accused Prime Minister Lord ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
