Caroline Rosetta Small, better known by the pen name Mistress Alexander Fraser was romance writer of Victorian era and the wife of General Alexander Fraser.
Background
Caroline Rosetta Small was born in India on 10 February 1829 to English parents, Beaumont Dixie Small and Caroline Honora Pereira. Her father, an assistant surgeon with the East India Company"s Bengal Light Infantry, died unexpectedly in 1831.
Career
Caroline"s mother later married James Frushard on 1 March 1834. With the exception of two years spent studying in Paris, Caroline spent most of her youth in India. Fraser went on to have a long career as a civil engineer building numerous railroads and lighthouses throughout India.
The couple had two sons, Alexander Bruce Siddons Fraser (1847–1933) and Campbell Edward Fraser (1850–1926), both born in India.
English civil records indicate that Caroline applied unsuccessfully for a legal separation in 1867 and again in 1885. General Fraser returned to England, living independently with a second family, including son Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888–1981).
Caroline died in Steyning, Sussex, England in 1908.