Mrs. Alexander Fraser

Caroline Rosetta Fraser ( Small; 10 February 1829 – 1908), better known by the pen name Mrs. Alexander Fraser, was a romance writer of the Victorian era and the estranged wife of General Alexander Fraser (1824–1898).

Biography Caroline Rosetta Small was born in British-occupied India on 10 February 1829 to English parents, Beaumont Dixie Small and Caroline Honora Pereira. Her father, an assistant surgeon with the East India Company's Bengal Light Infantry, died unexpectedly in 1831. Caroline's mother later married James Frushard on 1 March 1834.

With the exception of two years spent studying in Paris, Fraser spent most of her youth in India. On 11 March 1847, she married Alexander Fraser, at the time a lieutenant in the Bengal Engineer Group. records connected with her burial in All Saints churchyard, Patcham place her death at Withdean, Brighton on 8 December 1908.

Selected works Faithless Not While She Lives (1870) Denison's Wife (1872) Guardian and Lover (1876) Her Plighted Troth (1876) A Thing of Beauty (1877) A Maddening Blow (1878) A Fatal Passion (1879) False Hearts and True (1879) Her Deserts (1881) A Professional Beauty (1882) A Fashionable Marriage (1883) Guardian and Lover (1883) A Peeress of 1882, and Other Stories (1883) Only A Face, and Other Tales (1883) The Match of the Season (1885) The Last Drawing Room (1886) A Leader of Society (1887) Daughters of Belgravia (1887) She Came Between: A Love Story (1887) A Leader in Society (1887) Purple and Fine Linen (1889) Lady Claud (1889) The New Duchess (1890) A Modern Bridegroom (1892) A Mayfair Tragedy (1894)