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Author

Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (1808-1877).

Title

The Sorrows of Rosalie. A tale. With other poems. [By the Hon. Mrs. Norton].

Imprint

London: John Ebers and Co., 1829.

Physical description

pp.xii, [2], 134. 8vo. Contemporary quarter green morocco, marbled boards.

Call number

WPRP 160.

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 243

Bio

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Hon. Mrs. George Chapple Norton, afterwards Lady Stirling-Maxwell, 1808-1877. The second daughter of Thomas Sheridan and Caroline Henrietta Callander. Her mother was a minor novelist and her father, the colonial treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope, also wrote verse. In 1827, she married George Chapple Norton which ended in separation depriving her of her three children. She wrote much for annuals and published four novels after 1835. In 1857, after the death of her first husband, she married William Stirling Maxwell.

Notes

Includes Dedication.

Epigraph

Gayer insects fluttering by

Ne’er droop the wing o’er those that die;

And lovelier things have mercy shown

To every failing but their own;

And every woe a tear can claim,

Except an erring sister’s shame.

 

The Gaiour.

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