Norton Hon Mrs Caroline Elizabeth

Norton, Hon. Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth (1808-77), poetess and novelist, was the granddaughter of Sheridan. Her marriage with the Hon. George Norton was an unhappy one, and the husband and wife separated after living together for three years. Three months before her death she married Sir William Stirling-Maxwell. Besides numerous poems, including The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829) and The Lady of La Garaye (1862), she wrote Stuart of Dunleath (1847) and two other clever novels.