​CLIVE, CAROLINE (1801–1873), English authoress, was born in London on the 24th of June 1801, the daughter of Mr Meysey-Wigley, M.P. for Worcester. She married, in 1840, the Rev. Archer Clive. She published, over the signature “V.,” eight volumes of poetry, but is best known as the author of Paul Ferrell (1855), a sensational novel, and Why Paul Ferrell killed his Wife (1860). She died on the 13th of July 1873, at Whitfield, Herefordshire.