The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Informationen zum Autor Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women's sweated labour. At the Museum of London she worked as a lecturer and curator specialising in women's history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003. Klappentext Her good looks and wit attracted many male admirers, first her husband, the Honourable George Norton, and then the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accused Caroline and the Prime Minister of a 'criminal conversation' (adultery) resulting in a trial referred to as 'the scandal of the century'. Zusammenfassung Her good looks and wit attracted many male admirers, first her husband, the Honourable George Norton, and then the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accused Caroline and the Prime Minister of a ‘criminal conversation’ (adultery) resulting in a trial referred to as ‘the scandal of the century’.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Atkinson, Dr Diane Atkinson
• Publisher: Arrow
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 20.06.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780099556480
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955648-0
• Pages: 512
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm
• Subjects: True Crime; TRUE CRIME / General; c 1800 to c 1900; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899; Social and cultural history