Caroline Hopwood

D. Caroline Hopwood born D. Caroline Skene (1700s – 1801 at the latest) was a British autobiographer and schoolmistress of Leeds, England.

Life Hopwood came from Leeds where her family were Anglicans. Her mother's father was Dr. Law and her mother brought up in Carlisle. Her father was a lieutenant in the army from Scotland. She had an elder sister, whom she felt her mother thought of as her favourite. The times and places of her life are vague as the oblt record of her life comes from her own autobiography. This was not published until 1801 by her family who survived her. Sho wrote particularly about her own religious concerns. For instance she records that at the age of seven she was "convicted of sin" and in the following year her father died and she recorded that she was "afraid to die".

By 1768 she had married and in that year she left the Presbyterians to join the Methodists even though she initially thought them "low mean people" and after further investigation of their "studied serrmons" and questioning their unsatisfying "Methodist principles she decided that their aim was "outward atonement only". He died in nearby York in 1772. The other significant influence of her religious life was the leading Quaker Edmund Gurney from Norfolk. She heard his preach at the request of her eight-year-old child and then went on to join the Society of Friends.