Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and playwright. Alternative signature: The Hon. Mrs. Erskine Norton. Née Smith. Sister-in-law to Caroline Norton. Born in Whitehaven, Cumberland. Married twice, Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Esmé Stewart Erskine in 1809 and James Norton in 1819. Lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Author of The Martyr: A Tragedy (1848) and The Gossip: A Collection of Tales (1852). Biographical information: Curran Index, At the Circulating Library. (SP, CC)