Caroline Clive, sometimes known as Caroline Wigley Clive (24 June 1801 –13 July 1872) was an English

English people

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 writer

Writer

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 born Caroline Meysey-Wigley in Brompton Grove, London to Edmund Meysey-Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

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and Anna Marie Meysey.

Literary work

She used the pseudonym "V"

• IX Poems. 1840
• I Watched the Heavens: a poem. 1842
• The Queen's Ball, a poem. 1847
• The Valley of the Rea, a poem. 1851
• The Morlas, a poem.1853
• Paul Ferroll: a Tale. 1855
• Year after year: a tale. 1858
• Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife. 1860
• John Greswold. 1864
• Poems. 1872

Some of her texts can be found online at the Victorian Women Writers Project.

Family

On 10 November 1840 she married the Reverend Archer Clive, son of Edward Bolton Clive and Harriet Archer.

Children:

1. Charles Meysey Bolton Clive (30 January 1842 – 11 August 1883) married Lady Katherine Elizabeth Mary Julia Feilding
2. Alice Clive (22 December 1843 – 27 December 1915) married Major General William Wilberforce Harris Greathed