Caroline Fox
{{Short description|English diarist and correspondent, 1819–1871}}
{{For|the baroness|Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland}}
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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 major writers, who include John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle.
Biography
Caroline Fox was born on 24 May 1819 at Penjerrick, near Falmouth, to Robert Were Fox, an inventor, and Maria Barclay.{{Cite ODNB |last1=Chancellor |first1=V. E. |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |title-link=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-861411-X |editor-last1=Matthew |editor-first1=H. C. G |volume=20 |pages=605–606|chapter=Fox, Caroline|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10019 |oclc=54778415 |editor-last2=Harrison |editor-first2=Brian}} Both were Quakers. She was the younger sister of Barclay Fox, also a diarist,Her brother's journal was published in 1979, in a scholarly edition. and of Anna Maria Fox.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.
Caroline's diaries record memories of 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.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. A selection from the Victorian edition appeared in 1972.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 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10019, retrieved 13 June 2006].
With two of her siblings, Fox helped found the Falmouth Polytechnic, later the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.
Caroline Fox died on 12 January 1871 at Penjerrick and was buried at a Quaker cemetery in Budock.
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book |last=Fox |first=Caroline |editor=Wendy Monk |title=The journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: a selection |publisher=Paul Elek |location=London |year=1972 |isbn=0-236-15447-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/journalsofcaroli0000foxc}}
- {{Cite book |last=Tod |first= Robert |author-link=Robert Tod |title= 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 |publisher=Sessions |location=York |year=1980 |isbn=0-900657-54-5}}
- {{Cite book |last=Harris |first=Wilson |author-link=Wilson Harris (journalist) |title=Caroline Fox |publisher=Constable |location=London |year=1944 }}
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Category:19th-century English women writers
Category:19th-century English diarists
Category:19th-century British letter writers
Category:English women diarists
Category:Writers from Cornwall