Caroline Henrietta Sheridan was an English novelist of the 19th century.
Background
Caroline Callander was second daughter of Colonel James Callander (afterwards Sir James Campbell), by his third wife, Lady Elizabeth Helena (d 1851), youngest daughter of Alexander Macdonnell, fifth earl of Antrim. Mission Callander, one of the beauties of her day, was married in 1805 to Thomas Sheridan, the younger son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and by him she was mother of the politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the three beauties,’ Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye. The feminist Caroline Norton.
And Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.
Career
The only extant account of Caroline Sheridan"s character is contained in a letter written from Inveraray Castle by Matthew Lewis to his mother: "Mistress T. Sheridan is very pretty, very sensible, amiable, and gentle. Indeed so gentle that Tom insists upon it, that her extreme quietness and tranquillity is a defect in her character.
Above all, he accuses her of such an extreme apprehension of giving trouble (he says) it amounts to absolute affectation".
She received a small pension, and rooms at Hampton Court Palace were given to her by the prince regent. She published three novels which – according to the Dictionary of National – pleased the public.
The first was Carwell, or Crime and Sorrow (1830), which was designed to expose the inequitable sentences pronounced upon those who had been guilty of forgery. The second was Aims and Ends (1833).
And the third, Oonagh Lynch (1833).
Soon after publication, Carwell was translated into French and published in Paris.