She was the first woman to challenge laws that discriminated against women.
Until the mid 1800s, married women had no legal rights to their children or to their own property. This meant that an unscrupulous husband could, by law, prevent his wife from ever seeing her children and could also lay claim to any private income she might have. Caroline Norton was the first woman to challenge these laws. Two hundred years after her birth, Jane hears more about this vivacious literary figure from His Honour John Wroath, who has written a book about Caroline, and Megan Doolittle, Senior Lecturer at the Open University who has studied her life.
Until They are Seven by John Wroath is published by Waterside Press ISBN 1-904380-27-1
