Dr Diane Atkinson

Broschiertes Buch

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Beschreibung

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 à â Ë criminal conversationà â â (adultery) resulting in a trial referred to as à â Ë the scandal of the centuryà â â .

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 specializing 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, Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, and Elsie and Mairi Go To War, published in 2009.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornerstone
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780099556480
• ISBN-10: 0099556480
• Artikelnr.: 37294768