Blue plaque honours Caroline Norton, ‘unsung hero of women’s rights’

19th-century campaigner helped change divorce law after being ruined by abusive husband

Caroline Norton, a woman at the centre of one of the most publicised court cases of the 19th century and an “unsung hero in the fight for women’s rights”, is being celebrated with a heritage blue plaque in London.

The biographer Lady Antonia Fraser this week unveiled the plaque for someone she said deserved to be far better known, a woman who was in an abusive marriage and was ruined by her husband, but fought back and helped change the law.

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