Caroline Clive

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Caroline Clive's writing, though largely obscure today, was celebrated during the mid-nineteenth century. She published four novels and several collections of poetry, and contributed to a number of periodicals. As an initiator of the sensation novel, CC arguably revolutionized the aims and objects of fiction in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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Milestones

30 June 1801

Caroline Wigley (later Meysey-Wigley, later CC ) was born at Brompton Grove in London, an address that no longer exists.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland.
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1827

Caroline Meysey-Wigley (later CC ), as Paul Ferrol, published Essays on the Human Intellect, as constructed by God, and on Our Saviour , considered in His Character of Man.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

18 August 1855

CC published her best-known work, Paul Ferroll, an early sensation novel about wife murder, under her pseudonymous initial V.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
1451 (1855): 947-8

13 July 1873

At her home at Whitfield in Herefordshire, CC suffered severe burns as a result of a spark from a fire where she was sitting. She died the following morning.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland.
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Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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Biography

V. was derived from Vigolina , a name given to CC by her husband, a comically Latinized version of her maiden name Wigley.
Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head.
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Birth, Childhood, and Family

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