Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron

Born Caroline Emily Sharp around 1844, she became known to readers as Mrs. Lovett Cameron. She was an English novelist and the widow of explorer Verney Lovett Cameron, and she published fiction under the name by which she is still best remembered.

She wrote more than fourteen three-volume novels, a form strongly associated with Victorian publishing. Her work is often described as romantic fiction, with titles including Vera Nevill; or, Poor Wisdom's Chance, The Cost of a Lie, The Dead Past, and Pure Gold.

Though not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, her novels offer a lively glimpse of popular late-Victorian storytelling, with plenty of feeling, moral tension, and complicated personal lives. She died in 1921.