In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize events as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury’s not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitute. Knowing she can not change her brutish husband’s mind, Caroline resolves to change the law.
Steeped in archival research that draws on more than 1,500 of Caroline’s personal letters, The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton is the extraordinary story of one woman’s fight for the rights of women everywhere. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women’s Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Diane Atkinson holds a PhD in the politics of women’s labor and has worked as a lecturer and curator specializing in women’s history at the Museum of London. She is the author of Elsie and Mairi Go to War, Funny Girls, Love and Dirt, and Suffragettes in Pictures. Visit her online at www.dianeatkinson.co.uk.
“It is a brave book, written with verve and veracity.” —The Times
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: New. Fine. Paperback. 2013. Originally published at $17.99. Seller Inventory # W124879b
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.45. Seller Inventory # bk1613736681xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.45. Seller Inventory # 353-1613736681-new
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00XTSN_ns