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Best known for her 1855 crime novel Paul Ferroll, Clive is an important yet neglected contributor to the development of British crime writing. Born Caroline Wigley on 30 June 1801 in London, Clive was the third of five children of barrister and MP Edmund Wigley and Anna Maria Meysey. Permanently lamed by polio aged two and moving to Shakenhurst, a Worcestershire estate, when she was around ten (at which time her surname became Meysey-Wigley), she regarded her youth as comparatively unhappy and lonely.
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Clive, Mary, ed., From the Diary and Family Papers of Mrs. Archer Clive (1801–1873) (London: The Bodley Head, 1949).
Edwards, P. D., ‘Clive, Caroline (1801–1873)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010).
Gavin, Adrienne E., ‘“Deepen[ing] the Power and Horror of the Original”: Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll as Descendant of Jane Eyre’, La Revue LISA, 7:4 (2009), 64–86.
———, ‘Introduction’, in Paul Ferroll, ed. by Caroline Clive and Adrienne E. Gavin (Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2008), pp. vii–xxxii.
Mitchell, Charlotte, Caroline Clive 1801–1873: A Bibliography (Brisbane: Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, University of Queensland, 1999).
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Gavin, A.E. (2020). Caroline Clive (1801–1873), 1855: Paul Ferroll. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_1
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