Archer Clive

At the age of thirty-nine, at Bayton near Shakenhurst, Caroline Meysey-Wigley married the Reverend Archer Clive in defiance of the expectations of those around her.

According to one source, Caroline Meysey-Wigley fixed her affections on the Rev. Archer Clive , who was tall, strong, healthy, good-looking, intelligent, cultivated, travelled, musical, honest, sensible, well-off and well-connected. The general consensus was...

In July 1840, Caroline again travelled abroad and while there was joined by Archer Clive . Her great-grandson's wife Mary Clive noted that any reader who has preconceived ideas of how the Early Victorians behaved...

Letters between CC and her husband reveal an affectionate and caring relationship. In a letter to her dated May 1840 he writes: You are rather a shabby correspondent. I have, however, got you Balzac and...

In a letter Florence Nightingale wrote of CC : She is now married and has two children and I never saw happiness so stamped on any human creature's face. I liked her exceedingly and admire...

CC and her husband were occasionally separated; while he was away she was often ill and anxious. During one of her confinements she wrote: I was afflicted with bad dreams till we got into our...

She kept writing. By 1832 she was showing her manuscripts to the Rev. Archer Clive , whom eight years later she was to marry. She occasionally contributed to periodicals. October 1844 saw the publication...