Caroline Leigh Gascoigne

Caroline Leigh Gascoigne (gas-koin′; née, Smith; 2 May 1813 – 11 June 1883) was a 19th-century English poet and novelist.

She published Temptation (1839), Evelyn Harcourt (1842), Dr. Harold's Note-Book (1869), and other works in prose and verse.

Her early years were spent at her father's estate, Dale Park in Sussex.

[2] Her father was a rich banker but he was accidentally poisoned by his nearly-blind wife, who gave him an overdose of laudanum.

(later, General) Ernest Frederick Gascoigne, MP for Liverpool, and there were three children from this union.