The case of the married woman : Caroline Norton and her fight for women's justice
(2022, original release: 2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/NORTON,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2022
EDITION
First Pegasus books cloth edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639361571, 163936157X, 9781639361571
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Relates the story of nineteeth-century English poet Caroline Norton, who was denied access to her children by her husband after a sensational trial for adultery, and fought tirelessly for the rights of married women and mothers, resulting in the passage of the Infant Custody Act of 1839