A NOTED BEAUTY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 38, 5 June 1876, Page 2

A NOTED BEAUTY.

In the reign of William IV. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was a noted beauty. She was the grandda\ighter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and with her two sisters formed the "Three English Graces." One of these sisters, the Lady Dufferin, is the author of the once popular ballad, "The Irish Emigrants Lament" ; another is Lady Jane Seymour, who; presided at the Eglintoun tournament .a&tfche "Queen of Love and Beauty." Mrs. Norton was in early life married to George Chappell Norton. It was in lier sorrowing hours that she touched the harp and sounded the chords of song. Her earliest poems bear evidence of a heart full of grief, and are amongst the best of their kind in oiu' language. Later years developed her genius, and Mrs. Norton has long ranked among the foremost of British female poets. Everyone will remember her better when we mention "Bingen on the Rhine," a gem in its way. It was a strange coincidence that her famous grandfather should write the " School for Scandal," and the grandchild should i-ealise it in its worst London form. Mrs. Norton is soon to be married to Sir W. Stirling Maxwell. She is not young —rather in the period of matured beauty, and a little more—but a genius, and a woman purified bj r suffering.—"Westminster Gazette."