Robert Monsey Rolfe first Baron Cranworth

Standard Name: Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe,,, first Baron

Connections

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Textual Production	Caroline Norton	CN published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill). Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012. 385 Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012. 33 Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 249

Timeline

June 1854

Arguing for his Divorce Bill but against a husband's adultery as grounds for divorce, Lord Chancellor Cranworth remarked that it would be too harsh to bring the law to bear against a husband who was...

May 1856

Lord Chancellor Cranworth presented a second divorce bill, to which there were several successful amendments affecting married women's property.

Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.

38-40, 44-5

Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.

390

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