Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (née Sheridan, later Lady Stirling-Maxwell) NPG x197139

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John & Charles Watkins, published by Mason & Co (Robert Hindry Mason)

In 1827 Caroline married George Norton. She established herself as a society hostess, becoming friends with such figures as Benjamin Disraeli and the future King Leopold I. She also began writing; her first novel, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. Her marriage broke down in 1835. Her husband removed her children from her and accused her publicly of having an affair with Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, almost bringing down the government. Caroline continued to write as a means of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.