Caroline Norton

The Duke was sort of a friend of Dickens and put on one of his plays at Devonshire House in London.

We've got Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Caroline Norton, who's the lady over there, who was a friend of the Dukes for years.

She's quite a remarkable woman.

She was a very successful writer, but she also, as a result of a disastrous marriage and an abusive husband, became a big campaigner for married women's property rights.

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The Undying One and Other Poems by Caroline Norton.

The Undying One, Canto One.

Moonlight is o'er the dim and heaving sea, Moonlight is on the mountain's frowning brow, And by their silvery fountains merrily The maids of Castelle are dancing now.

He spoke, and deaf her ear to all below Save the deep magic of that voice of woe.

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Section two of The Undying One and Other Poems by Caroline Norton.

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Great days with

and all those people.

So condolences to all Paddy's many friends and of course his family.

Word Portraits of Famous Writers, edited by Mabel E. Wathen.

Caroline Norton, eighteen oh eight to eighteen seventy-seven.

From Kemble's Records of a Girlhood: When I first knew Caroline Sheridan, she had not long been married to the Honorable George Norton.

She was splendidly handsome, of an un-English character of beauty, her rather large and heavy head and features recalling the grandest Grecian and Italian models, to the latter of whom her rich coloring and blue-black braids of hair gave her an additional resemblance.

She had a rich gold-colored silk on, shaded and softened all over with black lace draperies, and her splendid head, neck, and arms were adorned with magnificently simple Etruscan ornaments, which she had brought from Rome, whence she had just returned, and where the fashion of that famous antique jewelry had lately been revived.

She was still une beauté triomphe à faire voir aux ambassadeurs.

From A Personal Friend: The most beautiful of the beautiful Sheridans, Caroline Norton will also live in the memory of her friends as one of the most fascinating of women.

Her voice was exceedingly sweet and musical, her movements wonderfully graceful, and, with the solitary exception of Theodore Hook, whose rough, coarse wit spared no one, her queenly bearing won her general adulation and deference.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Noel Badrian.

The Undying One and Other Poems by Caroline Norton.

The Undying One, Canto One.

Moonlight is o'er the dim and heaving sea, Moonlight is on the mountain's frowning brow, And by their silvery fountains merrily The maids of Castele are dancing now.

He spoke, and deaf her ear to all below Save the deep magic of that voice of woe.

End of section one.

Section two of The Undying One and other poems by Caroline Norton.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.