Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan — a remark

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“The married woman has no legal existence: her being is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband, under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything.”

A forceful summary of the legal erasure of married women under Victorian law · Essay, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century

About Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan

Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan

22 March 1808–15 June 1877

Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan, later Caroline Norton and, in the final months of her life, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was born in London on 22 March 1808 and died in London on 15 June 1877. She was a poet, novelist, dramatist, political hostess, journalist, pamphleteer, and one of the most consequential campaigners for…

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