Hero or Heroine? Caroline Norton’s Appeal to Justice
- Tuesday, 14th October 2008
- 12.45-1.30pm
- Hawthornden Lecture Theatre - Weston Link (National Gallery Complex)
- Free
- No booking required
Celebrated author Teresa Ransom gives a talk on Caroline Sheriden Norton, 1808-1877 who features in the Heroes exhibition at the Portrait Gallery. Her role in reforming the laws for women has been largely unsung, as she fought a trail-blazing battle to get the ‘non-existent’ status of married women changed.
Teresa Ramson's previous books include Fanny Trollope: A Remarkable Woman; Madame Tussaud: A Life and a Time and Prunella, the Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales.
