Caroline Norton
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, in 1836. Her husband then sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (adultery).
Watercolour sketch of Caroline Norton by Emma Fergusson 1860, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
Portrait engraving of Caroline Norton from the frontispiece of one of her books
Caroline Norton, detail of a portrait by Frank Stone, c. 1845
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, KT, FRSE was a Scottish historical writer, art historian and politician.
