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    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 3: Volume 3
    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 3: Volume 3
    The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 3: Volume 3
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    Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was born in London on March 22nd 1808. One of three sisters famed for their beauty and talents they became known as ‘The Three Graces’. In 1817 her father died whilst serving as the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope and the family was left penniless but able to arrange a ‘grace and favour’ apartment at Hampton Court for several years. In 1827 Caroline married George Chapple Norton a barrister and Member of Parliament. Caroline used her beauty, wit, and political connections, to establish herself as a society hostess. Her unorthodox behaviour and candid conversation raised eyebrows among 19th-century British high society; ensuring enemies and admirers in equal measure. In spite of his jealousy and pride, Norton encouraged his wife to use her connections to advance his career. With her influence in 1831 he was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate. But their marriage proved unhappy. Norton was unsuccessful as a barrister and the couple fought bitterly over money. During these difficult years, Caroline turned to prose and poetry. Her first book, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. The Undying One (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew soon followed. By 1836, Caroline had left her husband and was living on her earnings as an author, but Norton claimed these, arguing in court that, as her husband, Caroline's earnings were legally his. Paid nothing by her husband, her earnings confiscated, Caroline used the law to her own advantage by running up bills in her husband's name and telling the creditors when they came to collect, that if they wished to be paid, they could sue her husband. Norton abducted their children and refused to tell Caroline of their whereabouts and accused her of an ongoing affair with her close friend, Lord Melbourne, the Whig Prime Minister. He demanded £10,000 from Melbourne, who refused to be blackmailed, and Norton took him to court. The trial lasted nine days, and victory was Melbourne’s. However, the publicity almost brought down the government. Caroline's reputation was ruined as was her friendship with Lord Melbourne. Vindictively Norton continued to prevent Caroline seeing her three sons, and blocked her from receiving a divorce. According to British law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father, and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody. In 1842 her son William was out riding and fell from his horse. According to Caroline, the wounds were minor; but not properly treated and blood-poisoning set in. Norton, realising that the child was near death, sent for Caroline but William died before she arrived in Scotland. Caroline became passionately involved in the passage of laws promoting social justice, especially those granting rights to married and divorced women. Her poems "A Voice from the Factories" (1836) and "The Child of the Islands" (1845) centred around her political views. Legally unable to divorce her husband, Caroline engaged in a five-year affair with prominent Conservative politician Sidney Herbert in the early 1840s. The affair ended with his marriage to another in 1846. With the death of George Norton in 1875 she married an old friend, Scottish historical writer and politician Sir W. Stirling Maxwell in March 1877. Caroline died in London three months later on June 15th.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateMay 7, 2014
    ISBN9781783944002
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      The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - Volume 3 - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

      The Poetry of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

      Volume 3

      Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was born in London on March 22nd 1808. One of three sisters famed for their beauty and talents they became known as ‘The Three Graces’

      In 1817 her father died whilst serving as the Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope and the family was left penniless but able to arrange a ‘grace and favour’ apartment at Hampton Court for several years.

      In 1827 Caroline married George Chapple Norton a barrister and Member of Parliament.   Caroline used her beauty, wit, and political connections, to establish herself as a society hostess. Her unorthodox behaviour and candid conversation raised eyebrows among 19th-century British high society; ensuring enemies and admirers in equal measure.

      In spite of his jealousy and pride, Norton encouraged his wife to use her connections to advance his career. With her influence in 1831 he was made a Metropolitan Police Magistrate.  But their marriage proved unhappy.  Norton was unsuccessful as a barrister and the couple fought bitterly over money.

      During these difficult years, Caroline turned to prose and poetry. Her first book, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. The Undying One (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew soon followed.

      By 1836, Caroline had left her husband and was living on her earnings as an author, but Norton claimed these, arguing in court that, as her husband, Caroline's earnings were legally his. Paid nothing by her husband, her earnings confiscated, Caroline used the law to her own advantage by  running up bills in her husband's name and telling the creditors when they came to collect, that if they wished to be paid, they could sue her husband.

      Norton abducted their children and refused to tell Caroline of their whereabouts and accused her of an ongoing affair with her close friend, Lord Melbourne, the Whig Prime Minister. He demanded £10,000 from Melbourne, who refused to be blackmailed, and Norton took him to court.

      The trial lasted nine days, and victory was Melbourne’s. However, the publicity almost brought down the government. Caroline's reputation was ruined as was her friendship with Lord Melbourne.

      Vindictively Norton continued to prevent Caroline seeing her three sons, and blocked her from receiving a divorce. According to British law in 1836, children were the legal property of their father, and there was little Caroline could do to regain custody.  In 1842 her son William was out riding and fell from his horse. According to Caroline, the wounds were minor; but not properly treated and blood-poisoning set in. Norton, realising that the child was near death, sent for Caroline but William died before she arrived in Scotland.

      Caroline became passionately involved in the passage of laws promoting social justice, especially those granting rights to married and divorced women. Her poems A Voice from the Factories (1836) and The Child of the Islands (1845) centred around her political views.

      Legally unable to divorce her husband, Caroline engaged in a five-year affair with prominent Conservative politician Sidney Herbert in the early 1840s. The affair ended with his marriage to another in 1846.

      With the death of George Norton in 1875 she married an old friend, Scottish historical writer and politician Sir W. Stirling Maxwell in March 1877. Caroline died in London three months later on June 15th.

      Index Of Poems

      The Dying Hour

      The Faithful Friend

      The Faithful Guardian

      The Faithless Knight

      The Fallen Leaves

      The Fever-Dream

      The Forsaken

      The Future.

      The German Student’s Love-Song

      The Greek Girl’s Lament For Her Lover

      The Hunting Horn Of Chalemagne

      The King Of Denmark’s Ride

      The Lament For Shuil Donald’s Daughter

      The Lost One

      The Mother’s Heart

      The Mother’s Last Watch

      The Mourners

      The Name

      The Picture Of Sappho

      The Pilgrim of Life.

      The Poet’s Choice

      The Poplar Field

      The Rebel

      The Reprieve

      The Ringlet

      The Rock Of The Betrayed

      The Sense Of Beauty

      The Tryst

      The Visionary Portrait

      The Wanderer Looking Into Other Homes

      The Widow To Her Son’s Betrothed

      The Winter’s Walk

      They Loved One Another

      To Ferdinand Seymour

      To The Lady H.O.

      Twilight

      We Have Been Friends Together

      Weep Not For Him That Dieth

      When Poor In All But Hope And Love

      Would I Were With Thee!

      The Dying Hour

      I.

      Oh! watch me; watch me still 

      Thro' the long night's dreary hours, 

      Uphold by thy firm will 

      Worn Nature's sinking powers! 

      II.

      While yet thy face is there 

      (The loose locks round it flying), 

      So young, and fresh, and fair, 

      I feel not I am dying! 

      III.

      Stoop down, and kiss my brow! 

      The shadows round me closing 

      Warn me that dark and low 

      I soon shall be reposing. 

      IV.

      But while those pitying eyes 

      Are bending thus above me, 

      In vain the death-dews rise, 

      Thou dost regret and love me! 

      V.

      Then watch me thro' the night, 

      Thro' my broken, fitful slumber; 

      By the pale lamp's sickly light 

      My dying moments number! 

      VI.

      Thy fond and patient smile 

      Shall soothe my painful waking; 

      Thy voice shall cheer me while 

      The slow grey dawn is breaking! 

      VII.

      The battle-slain, whose thirst 

      No kindly hand assuages, 

      Whose low faint farewells burst 

      Unheard, while combat rages, 

      VIII.

      The exiled, near whose bed 

      Some vision'd form seems weeping, 

      Whose steps shall never tread 

      The land where he lies sleeping, 

      IX.

      The drown'd, whose parting breath 

      Is caught by wild winds only, 

      Theirs is the bitter death, 

      Beloved, for they die lonely! 

      X.

      But thus, tho' rack'd, to lie, 

      Thou near, tho' full of sadness, 

      Leaves still, e'en while I die, 

      A lingering gleam of gladness! 

      XI.

      I feel not half my pain 

      When to mine thy fond lip presses, 

      I warm to life again 

      Beneath thy soft caresses! 

      XII.

      Once more, oh! yet once more 

      Fling,

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