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Acknowledgments xi
Foreword: The Cassandra Dilemma xiii
Abbreviations xix
Introduction: "The Caudine Forks" and the Optics of Authorship 1
Portraits of the Author I: The Woman Feminized, the Writer Domesticated 5
Portraits of the Author II: The Writer Etherealized, the Woman Masculinized 9
Caroline at the Crossways 16
Part I Authorship
1 "The World" and "The (Sm)all Great": Silver Fork Narratives 23
The Equivocal Value of Visibility I: At Almack's and in Print 25
Silver Fork Satire 27
The Dandy School: The Geography of Vanity and the Mathematics of Marriage 31
The Double Plot of Coquetry 35
Norton and Thackeray I: Vanity Fairs 41
2 "Strange Unstable World": Structure and Synthesis in the Final Narratives 47
1829/1863: The Sorrows of Rosalie and Lost and Saved 48
"Our Modern Mary Magdalene" 58
The Uses of Race 63
Structure and Synthesis: Lost and Saved and Old Sir Douglas 67
Part II Law
3 "The Brethren of the Long Robe": Legal Satire and Courtroom Humor 77
Common Law Comedy in Norton v. Melbourne 79
Criminal Correspondence: "Grandis et Verbosa Epistola" 85
The Equivocal Value of Visibility II: In the Courtroom 87
Breach of Promise: Suitors on Trial 93
Criminal Conversation: Newcome v. Highgate and Warwick v. Dannisburgh 103
4 "Ink Stands and Law Books": Domestic and Legal Violence 109
The Greenacre Letters 111
Domestic and Legal Violence in Stuart of Dunleath 114
Divorce: "A Most Indecent Fiction of the Law" 118
Norton and Thackeray II: The Nortons and The Newcomes 126
Coda: Criminal Law 128
Part III Politics
5 "Half a Life": Narratives ofWomen and Politics 133
The Equivocal Value of Visibility III: In the Salon 136
The First Term: Political Influence from 1830 to 1836 138
The Second Term: Political Influence from 1840 to 1846 142
Fictional Portraits 146
(i) Trollope's Laura Kennedy 147
(ii) Disraeli's Berengaria Montfort 153
(iii) Meredith's Diana Warwick 157
6 "Lopsided and Left-Handed Laws": Narratives of Mothers and Wives 167
The Politics of Protection, the Colors of Feminism 168
The Education of Women: Wollstonecraft, Norton, and Tennyson 177
The First Campaign: The Custody of Infants Bill (1839) 181
Legal Fictions and License of the Bar 191
The Second Campaign: The Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) 196
Afterword: "Such Is the Tale They Tell!": The Narratives of Caroline Norton 205
Notes 213
Bibliography 231
Index 243
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Andrew Mcleod
reviewed The Narratives Of Caroline Norton on March 06, 2011
The Narratives Of Caroline Norton
Very little in literature gives me more pleasure than reading the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. I once knew The Wreck of the Deutchland by heart and have delighted in kestrels, poplars and fast moving streams. I once spent a long time and a lot more money than I could afford in a pub in Didsbury with Anthony Easthope debating whether he was really a poet at all. I was a fan, Easthope wasn't and there were few minds harder to shift in Manchester in those days. A bloody good tustle though and I wish I could remember the name of the pub. Anthony has gone and my love of Hopkins remains.
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