Caroline Fox
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Caroline Fox (24 May 1819 – 12 January 1871) was an English diarist and correspondent from Cornwall. Her diary records memories of several notable people, including John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle.
Biography
Caroline Fox was born 24 May 1819 at Penjerrick, a large house near Falmouth,[4] as one of five children of Robert Were Fox FRS, an inventor, from the influential Fox family of Falmouth and his wife, Maria Barclay. Both were Quakers. She was the younger sister of Barclay Fox, also a diarist,[5] and of Anna Maria Fox.[6]
Caroline's well-known diaries record memories of distinguished people such as John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Thomas Carlyle. Selections from her diary and letters (1835–1871) appeared as Memories of Old Friends: Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall.[7][8] A selection from the Victorian edition appeared in 1972.[9]
Caroline Fox and her sister Anna Maria helped to found the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in Falmouth.[4]
Caroline Fox died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at Budock.[4]
Further reading
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Notes and references
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. – Frontispiece, from an etching by Sir Hubert Herkomer, after a painting by Samuel Laurence, depicting Caroline Fox, age 27. Volume 1 available online at Internet Archive and Volume 2 at Internet Archive
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- ↑ Fox (1883)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Biography. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ Her brother's journal was published in 1979, in a scholarly edition.
- ↑ Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds., The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, London: Batsford, 1990, p. 390.
- ↑ Edited by H. N. Pym, 1881; 2nd edition, 1882.
- ↑ For detail on this and her relations with members of the Fox family, see Horace Pym.
- ↑ The Journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: A Selection, ed. Wendy Monk; London, Paul Elek, (1972) ISBN 0-236-15447-8; ODNB V. E. Chancellor, "Fox, Caroline (1819–1871)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 June 2006.
- ↑ (Henry) Wilson Harris (1883–1955), journalist and author (Biographer of Caroline Fox), appears in ODNB: Derek Hudson, "Harris, (Henry) Wilson (1883–1955)", rev. Marc Brodie, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1], accessed 10 Dec 2007] His parents were Plymouth Quakers.
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Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about Caroline Fox. |
