Caroline Fox
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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.
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Caroline Fox was born on 24 May 1819 at Penjerrick, near Falmouth, to Robert Were Fox, an inventor, and Maria Barclay.<ref name="odnb">Template:Cite ODNB</ref> Both were Quakers. She was the younger sister of Barclay Fox, also a diarist,<ref>Her brother's journal was published in 1979, in a scholarly edition.</ref> and of Anna Maria Fox.<ref>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.</ref>
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.<ref>Edited by H. N. Pym, 1881; 2nd edition, 1882.</ref><ref>For detail on this and her relations with members of the Fox family, see Horace Pym.</ref> A selection from the Victorian edition appeared in 1972.<ref>The Journals of Caroline Fox, 1835–1871: A Selection, ed. Wendy Monk; London, Paul Elek, (1972) Template:ISBN; ODNB V. E. Chancellor, "Fox, Caroline (1819–1871)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 13 June 2006.</ref>
With two of her siblings, Fox helped found the Falmouth Polytechnic, later the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.<ref name="odnb"/>
Caroline Fox died on 12 January 1871 at Penjerrick and was buried at a Quaker cemetery in Budock.<ref name="odnb"/>