Lifespan: 1813-1883
Nationality: English
Types of Work: Novels, historical works, poetry
Bio:
Caroline Leigh Gascoigne was born in 1813 in London, the daughter of John Smith, M.P. (1767–1842), and his third wife Emma Leigh (died 1851). Her father was a wealthy London banker and brother of Lord Carrington, and she spent her early life on her father's estate Dale Park in Sussex. In 1834 she married Lt.-Col. Ernest Frederick Gascoigne who served in the Peninsula campaign and took part in the taking of Washington during the war with America (where he was severely wounded). He served in Parliament for Liverpool, eventually rose to the rank of general and was the colonel of the 69th regiment when he died in 1876. The couple had three children. Caroline died on June 11, 1883
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Novels:
Temptation, or A Wife's Perils (1839)
The School for Wives (1839)
Evelyn Harcourt (1842)
Doctor Harold (1866)
Dr. Harold's Notebook (1869)
Spencer's Cross Manor House (1852)
The Next Door Neighbors (1855)