Caroline Sharp

Background

Caroline Emily Sharp was born in 1844 in London to a well-off family who began her education by sending her to Paris at the age of six to learn French.

Career

She wrote more than fourteen three-volume novels. In France she stayed in the Rue de Concelles with the Nizard family. Mr. Nizard later went on to be a French senator

She went to boarding school in England and then returned home.

Her requests to become a writer were denied, despite the evidence that she preferred writing to needlework. She was known as "Emily" but she wrote under the name of ".

Achievements

• At her husband"s instigation she started to write, achieving moderate success with her first novel, Juliette"s Guardian, which was published in a magazine and then as a book in 1877.

Connections

brother-in-law:

Lovett Cameron