Caroline Fox

Caroline Fox ( - )
Short biography

Fox, born at Penjerrick, Falmouth to Robert Fox the Younger and Maria Barclay, was a quaker, diarist, and translator.

Full biography

She was sister to Anna Maria and Barclay Fox and a friend and correspondent of Elizabeth Carne of Penzance. Within her diaries, she took particular interest in the scientists, politicians, and literary figures that she had met.

Caroline Fox’s edited diaries were first published in 1882, eleven years posthumously. They were reissued with revisions in 1883. Her list of publications includes writings and translations from Italian.

Through her siblings, wider family, and friends, Fox was in touch with a rich intellectual and social network, including abolitionists and quakers, as well as notable thinkers such as the Carlyles, Wordsworth, John Stuart Mill.

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An etching of Caroline Fox
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Etching of Caroline Fox, aged 27. Frontispiece of Memories of old friends: being extracts from the journals of Caroline Fox, edited by Horace Pym.
Date of birth
24 May 1819
Place of birth
Falmouth, Cornwall
Date of death
12 January 1871
Place of death
Falmouth, Cornwall
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