Clive, CAROLINE

Clive, CAROLINE, novelist, was born in London, 24th June 1801, the daughter of Mr Meysey-Wigley, M.P. for Worcester. In 1840 she married the Rev. Archer Clive; and, for several years a great invalid, she died, through her dress catching fire, at Whitfield, Hereford, 13th July 1873. Between 1840 and 1872 she published eight volumes of poems by 'V.', but she is best known by Paul Ferroll (1855), a really strong sensation novel, much superior to Why Paul Ferroll killed his Wife (1860).