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...

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...

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...