The life of Caroline Norton Not a work of fiction, this is an account of the life of Caroline Norton. Born Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan on 22 March 1808, the daughter of  Thomas Sheridan and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callander, and grandughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She married George Chapple Norton in 1827. The couple had three sons. Norton… More The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton