orchids. John caused a scandal in 1879 by running off with another man's wife, the former Katharine McVickar, daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. The jilted husband was the 5th Lord Grantley's older cousin, Major Charles Grantley Campbell Norton. Katharine's marriage to Charles was annulled, and Katharine and John were married that November, five days before the birth of their first child. Despite her scandalous introduction to British society, Katharine went on to become a successful London hostess. Commemoration In April 2021 English Heritage announced that Caroline was one of six women to be honoured that year with a blue plaque marking her central London home for over 30 years. It was unveiled on 3 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair by Antonia Fraser. Work Political pamphlets A Voice from the Factories, 1836 Separation of Mother and Child by the Laws of Custody of Infants Considered, 1837 A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, 1839 Letters to the Mob, 1848 English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854 A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage & Divorce Bill, 1855 A Review of the Divorce Bill of 1856, with propositions for an amendment of the laws affecting married persons, 1857 Poetry collections The Sorrows of Rosalie: A Tale with Other Poems, 1829 I Do Not Love Thee, 1829 The Cold Change, 1829 The Undying One and Other Poems, 1830 The Faithless Knight, 1830 The Dream, and Other Poems, 1840 The Child of the Islands, 1845 Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children, 1847 Bingen on the Rhine, undated: "Copyrighted 1883 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia" The Centenary Festival, 1859 The Lady of La Garaye, 1862 We Have Been Friends Together Novels The Dandies Rout, 1825 The Wife, and Woman's Reward, 3 vols, 1835 Stuart of Dunleath, 1851 Lost and Saved, 3 vols, 1863 Old Sir Douglas. 3 vols, 1866 Plays The Gypsy Father, 1830 Vathek, based on the novel by William Beckford, 1830. In the Notes & Queries issue of March 2017, 86–95 ("The Lost Manuscript of Caroline Norton's Vathek"), Robert J. Gemmett provides compelling evidence that Caroline's manuscript of this play may have survived. See also "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" Notes References Alice Acland, Caroline Norton, Constable, 1948 Diane Atkinson, The Criminal Conversation is of Mrs Norton. London, Preface Publishing, 2012 Barbara Caine, English Feminism, 1780–1980, Oxford University Press, 1997 Alan Chedzoy,