Caroline Fox

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Caroline Fox (24 May 1819 – 12 January 1871), was an English diarist.

She was born on 24 May 1819 at Falmouth, the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS. Her older sister and brother were Anna Maria Fox and Barclay Fox (also a diarist)^[3], of the influential Fox family of Falmouth.

Caroline was well known as the authoress of a diary, recording memories of many distinguished people, such as John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Thomas Carlyle. Selections from her diary and correspondence (1835-1871) were published under the title of Memories of Old Friends: Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall (edited by H. N. Pym, 1881; 2nd edition, 1882).^[4] A selection from the Victorian edition was published in 1972.^[5].

She died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at Budock.

[edit] See also

• Fox, Caroline (1972). in Wendy Monk: The journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: a selection. London: Paul Elek. ISBN 0-236-15447-8. 

• Tod, Robert (1980). Caroline Fox, Quaker blue-stocking 1819-1871, friend of John Stuart Mill, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Frederick Denison Maurice and helper of sailors in distress. York: Sessions. ISBN 0-900657-54-5. 

• Harris, Wilson (1944). Caroline Fox. London: Constable. . ^[6]

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ Fox, Caroline (1883). in Horace N. Pym: Memories of Old Friends. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.  - Frontispiece, from an etching by Sir Hubert Herkomer, after a painting by Samuel Laurence, depicting Caroline Fox, age 27.
2. ^ Robinson, William (1891). Friends of a Half Century. London: Edward Hicks. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.  - page 138
3. ^ Her brother's journal was published in 1979, in a scholarly edition.
4. ^ For more details about this publication and the editor's relationships with members of the Fox family, see the Wikipedia article on Horace Pym
5. ^ The journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: a selection, ed. Wendy Monk; London, Paul Elek, (1972) ISBN 0-236-15447-8 see also:

   ODNB V. E. Chancellor, ‘Fox, Caroline (1819–1871)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 13 June 2006

6. ^ (Henry) Wilson Harris (1883–1955), journalist and author (Biographer of Caroline Fox), is the subject of an article 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.

Persondata
NAME	Fox, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Diarist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Falmouth
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1871
PLACE OF DEATH	Falmouth