About the Book:The Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope.Table of Contents: Introduction: ‘The Caudine Forks’ and the Optics of Authorship ‘The World’ and ‘the (Sm)all Great’: Silver Fork Society and Literature ‘Strange Unstable World’: Structure and Synthesis in the Final Narratives ‘Ink Stands and Law Books’: Narratives of Domestic and Legal Violence ‘The Brethren of the Long Robe’: Legal Satire and Courtroom Humor ‘Half a Life’: Narratives of Women and Politics ‘Lopsided and Left-Handed Laws’: Narratives of Mothers and Wives