Caroline Clive

Caroline Clive

Caroline Clive, sometimes known as Caroline Wigley Clive (June 24, 1801 in Brompton Grove, London –July 13, 1872 in Whitfield, Herefordshire) was an English author. She was the daughter of Edmund Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire. She married, in 1840, the Rev. Archer Clive. She published, over the signature "V.", eight volumes of poetry, but is best known as the author of "Paul Ferrol" (1855), a sensational novel about murder, and "Why Paul Ferroll Killed His Wife" (1860).

Some of her texts can be found online at the [http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/vwwp-query.pl?type=simple&rgn=TEXT&q1=clive&size=First+100 Victorian Women Writers Project] .

References

*1911
*P. D. Edwards, "Clive , Caroline (1801–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5693, accessed 20 Feb 2008]


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