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Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar (9 October 18487 April 1920) was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar. == Family == Caroline Alice Roberts, known as Alice, was born in Bhuj, Gujarat, India, in 1848. She was the youngest child and only daughter of Major-General Sir Henry Gee Roberts KCB (1800–1860), and Julia Maria Raikes (1815–1887). Her three elder brothers were Albert Henry Roberts (born in 1839 and died young), Frederick Boyd Roberts (born 1841) and Stanley Napier Roberts (born 1844). Their father was serving in India at the time of the Indian Rebellion, and he died when Alice was aged only 12. She was from a distinguished family: on her mother's side her grandfather was the Rev. Robert Napier Raikes, her great-grandfather Robert Raikes (1736–1811) was the founder of the Sunday school movement, and her uncle〔Alice's uncle General Robert Napier Raikes had the same name as his father (Alice's grandfather) Rev. Robert Napier Raikes (1783–1851)〕 was British Indian Army General Robert Napier Raikes (1813–1909). As a girl she studied with the amateur geologist Rev W. S. Symonds and they and a group of her friends went fossil-hunting on the banks of the river Severn.〔Powell, p.1〕 She wrote the index to a book by him. She studied the piano with Ferdinand Kufferath〔The soprano Antonia Kufferath (Mrs Edward Speyer) was the daughter of Ferdinand Kufferath, and Elgar dedicated one of his songs ''Speak, Music!'' to her〕 in Brussels and harmony with Charles Harford Lloyd.〔Moore, p.115〕 She spoke fluent German, and also Italian, French and Spanish. Before she was married her writing was published under the name C. Alice Roberts. A two-volume novel, ''Marchcroft Manor'', was published in 1882, four years before she met Elgar. The Elgar scholar Diana McVeagh describes it as "quite an accomplished, entertaining, indeed touching tale, with a control of pace and situation, and a humour that might well surprise anyone knowing Alice only from her later verses, letters and diary". McVeagh also notes that earlier critics have drawn attention to the "tincture of radicalism" in the book.〔McVeagh, Diana, "Mrs Edward Elgar", ''The Musical Times'', February 1984, pp. 76–78〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caroline Alice Elgar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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