Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb

"Mrs. Caroline Slemmer wife of the gallant Lieutenant Slemmer, now in command of Fort Pickens." Lithograph by John L. Magee, from a photograph taken Feb. 18th 1861.

Caroline Lane Jebb, Lady Jebb (1840 – 11 July 1930), née Reynolds, then Slemmer, was an American intellectual and socialite. They initially lived in Glasgow, where her husband was a professor, but spent summers in Cambridge until the death of Benjamin Hall Kennedy vacated the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.

In 1918, with difficulties in England due to the First World War, she returned to the United States. Her ashes were subsequently interred in the grave of her late husband in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. She is mentioned extensively, well illustrated and characterised as a matriarch in her grand-niece (Maud's daughter) Gwen Raverat's 1952 book Period Piece as "(Great) Aunt Cara", with her husband "(Great) Uncle Dick".

A biography and selected correspondence were published in 1960 by Mary Reed Bobbitt. Her papers are held by the Five College Consortium.