Caroline Henrietta Sheridan (née Callander; 1779 – 9 June 1851) was an English novelist of the 19th century.
[2] The only extant account of Caroline Sheridan's character is contained in a letter written from Inveraray Castle by Matthew Lewis to his mother: "Mrs. 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.
[2] She accompanied her husband in 1813 to the Cape of Good Hope, where, while serving the office of colonial treasurer, he died of consumption on 12 September 1817.
After her children were grown up, Frances Kemble wrote in Records of a Girlhood: "Mrs. Sheridan, the mother of the Graces, is more beautiful than anybody but her daughters".
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.