Значение слова NORTON в Литературной энциклопедии

1) CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (SHERIDAN) (1808-1877).-Grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley S. (_q.v._), _m._ in 1827 the Hon. G.C. Norton, a union which turned out most unhappy, and ended in a separation. Her first book, _The Sorrows of Rosalie_ (1829), was well received. _The Undying One_ (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew, followed, and other novels were _Stuart of Dunleath_ (1851), _Lost and Saved_ (1863), and _Old Sir Douglas_ (1867). The unhappiness of her married life led her to interest herself in the amelioration of the laws regarding the social condition and the separate property of women and the wrongs of children, and her poems, _A Voice from the Factories_ (1836), and _The Child of the Islands_ (1845), had as an object the furtherance of her views on these subjects. Her efforts were largely successful in bringing about the needed legislation. In 1877 Mrs. N. _m._ Sir W. Stirling Maxwell (_q.v._). 2) NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1827-1909).-American biographer and critic. _Church Building in the Middle Ages_ (1876), translation of the _New Life_ (1867), and _The Divine Comedy_ of Dante (1891); has ed. _Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson_ (1883), _Carlyle's Letters and Reminiscences_ (1887), etc.