Caroline Clive

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Standard Name: Clive, Caroline
Birth Name: Caroline Meysey-Wigley
Married Name: Caroline Clive
Nickname: V
Pseudonym: V
Used Form: Mrs Archer Clive
Used Form: Paul Ferrol
Used Form: the author of IX. Poems by V
Used Form: the author of Paul Ferroll
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, 1932.
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Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
FN 's dissatisfaction with her domestic situation intensified after she returned to England. She came to rely on friends for comfort and intellectual stimulation. She was close to her cousin Hilary Bonham Carter , especially...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Atkins
Though AA 's preface concedes the the talent, the ingenuity, the very clever writing of sensation-authors,
Atkins, Anna. A Page from the Peerage. T. Cautley Newby, 1863, 2 vols.
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it also hints that they are in it for the money, and expresses outrage at what it sees...
Literary responses Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
After languishing for more than a century, HET 's work has reappeared in the anthology of Victorian women poets edited by Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds .Leighton compares her unsentimenal poems on childbirth and motherhood...
Publishing Mary Wollstonecraft
This book (several times reprinted in England and America, but now rare) has often been omitted from lists of her works. Most of the illustrations, which were added in the second edition, 1791, are by...
Textual Features Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883, 2 vols.
I: prelims; II: prelims
Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY published her novel as the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. Le Fanu's Uncle Silas is sometimes called the first murder mystery, and, as Battiscombe notes, Yonge wrote her contribution to this genre...
Travel Mary Russell Mitford
Scholar Katie Halsey notes that she positioned herself at the heart of a network of literary people, both male and female, and dedicated much of her time to forming and keeping up literary friendships.
Halsey, Katie. “Tell Me of some Booklings: Mary Russell Mitford’s Female Literary Networks”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2011, pp. 121-36.
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Timeline

March 1848: Chartist uprisings took place in London,...

National or international item

March 1848

Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Texts

Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head, 1949.
Clive, Caroline. Essays on the Human Intellect, as constructed by God, and on Our Saviour, considered in His Character of Man. Printed for John Rodwell, 1827.
Clive, Caroline. I Watched the Heavens. Saunders and Otley, 1842.
Clive, Caroline, and Eric Honeywood Partridge. IX. Poems. Scholartis Press, 1928.
Clive, Caroline. IX. Poems by V. Saunder and Otley, 1840.
Clive, Caroline. John Greswold. Hurst and Blackett, 1864, 2 vols.
Clive, Caroline. Paul Ferroll. Saunders and Otley, 1855.
Clive, Caroline. Paul Ferroll. Redfield, 1856.
Clive, Caroline. Poems. Saunders and Otley, 1856.
Clive, Caroline. Poems by V. Longmans, 1872.
Clive, Caroline. Saint Oldooman. Simpkin Marshall, 1845.
Clive, Caroline. The Morlas. Hope, 1853.
Clive, Caroline. The Queen’s Ball. Saunders and Otley, 1847.
Clive, Caroline. The Valley of the Rea. Saunders and Otley, 1851.
Clive, Caroline. Why Paul Ferrol killed his Wife. Saunders and Otley, 1860.
Clive, Caroline. Year after Year. Saunders and Otley, 1858.