AN exhibition celebrating an unsung hero of the women’s rights movement has been nominated for an award.

Markenfield Hall near Ripon is running an exhibition on Caroline Norton and her role as a pivotal figure in women’s history.

Ms Norton was a Georgian society beauty whose campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill Marriage and Divorce Bill, were instrumental in shaping women’s rights and current laws.

Markenfield Hall’s exhibition has now been nominated for the Women’s History Network award for a Community History project.

The exhibition, which will be held during the hall’s annual open days, draws on Ms Norton’s written letters, plays and poems from the family archives; as well as other historical sources.

A spokesman for Markenfield said: “The hall’s team of archive volunteers has worked tirelessly all winter to transcribe the many documents in the collection, and to put together an exhibition that we hope will make Caroline a household name once more.”

The hall is open from June 10 to 24 from 2pm to 5pm.