Alan Chedzoy

Caroline Sheridan (later CN ) was sent to a boarding school at Shalford in Surrey (near Guildford) with her younger sister Georgy: presumably this had something to do with her being difficult.

Her friendship with Sidney Herbert , an able, hard-working, high-principled, rising politician of about her own age, was regarded by her contemporaries as a love-affair, and her recent biographer Alan Chedzoy agrees.

Alan Chedzoy writes that Not lost but gone before was possibly the most famous of all Victorian ballads about death. . . . recited in later years in thousands of parlours.

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...

The engraved plates included portraits of aristocratic beauties and scenes of stately homes. The earlier of the two volumes for 1832 opened with Leaves of a Life; or, The Templar's Tale, signed Cxxxy (perhaps...

Biographer Alan Chedzoy suggests that CN fictionalises her own circumstances in both the long stories making up this work. The heroine of The Wife has married without love after being jilted by another man; her...