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Caroline Clive

 

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Caroline Clive : The Great Drought

["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Caroline Clive : The Queen's Ball: A Poem

'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

  

Caroline Clive : Paul Ferroll

'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again... He puts Paul Ferroll very high indeed among modern novels, & the Poems, not only high but at the Top of modern poetry...Lord Lansdowne's opinion is of so much value, that I thought I ought to write...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne      Print: Book

  

Caroline Clive : poems (unspecified)

'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again... He puts Paul Ferroll very high indeed among modern novels, & the Poems, not only high but at the Top of modern poetry...Lord Lansdowne's opinion is of so much value, that I thought I ought to write...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne      Print: Book

 

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