Caroline Clive - Paul Ferroll
Autor: Caroline Clive.
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Caroline Meysey-Wigley was born on June 24th 1801 in Brompton Grove, London, the daughter of Edmund Meysey-Wigley, Esq., of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire, M.P. for Worcester, and his wife, Anna Maria Meysey. A severe illness contracted when she was three left her with several after-effects chief amongst them was lameness. During her lifetime she became a respected and well-regarded poet and author. All of her works were published anonymously, using the pen name, "V". In 1840, her 'IX Poems' appeared in a small duodecimo, which Hartley Coleridge reviewed in the September edition of the Quarterly Review: - "We suppose V stands for Victoria, and really she queens it among our fair friends. Perhaps V will think it a questionable compliment, if we say, like the late Baron Graham to Lady -, in the Assize Court at Exeter, 'We beg your ladyship's pardon, but we took you for a man.' Indeed, these few pages are distinguished by a sad Lucretian tone, such as very seldom comes from a woman's lyre. But V is a woman, and no ordinary woman certainly; though, whether spinster, wife, or widow, we have not been informed. The stanzas printed by us are, in our judgment, worthy of any one of our...