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== Early life ==
Normanton was born in [[East London]] to Jane Amelia (nee Marshall) and piano maker William Alexander Normanton.<ref name="HN UOL2">{{cite book|title=Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women|last=Bourne|first=Judith|publisher=Waterside Press, 2016|year=2016|isbn=9781909976320}}</ref> In 1886, when she was just four years old, her father was found dead in a railway tunnel. Her mother, who may already have been separated from her father, a stigmatised position in those days,<ref name="HN UOL2" /> brought up Helena and her younger sister Ethel alone<ref name="schoolnet12">
Normanton describes the moment she decided to become a barrister in her book, ''[[Everyday Law for Woman]]''. She says that as a twelve year old girl, she was visiting a solicitor's office with her mother, who was unable to understand the solicitor's advice.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Everyday Law for Woman|last=Normanton|first=Helena|publisher=Richard Clay & Sons|year=1932|pages=6}}</ref> Normanton recognised this situation as a form of [[sex discrimination]] and wished to help all women gain access to the law, which at the time was a profession only open to men.<ref name="HN UOL2" />
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