Norton, Mrs.

Norton, Mrs., English novelist and poet, née Sheridan, granddaughter of Sheridan, authoress of “Stuart of Dunleath,” “Lost and Saved,” &c., described by Lockhart as “the Byron of poetesses,” figures in Meredith's “Diana of the Crossways” (1808-1877).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)