Alexander FraserMrs. ALEXANDER FRASER Born on February 10, 1829, ALEXANDER FRASER was a Victorian romance writer and the estranged wife of General Alexander Fraser (1824-1898). She was also known by her other name, Caroline Rosetta Fraser. On February 10, 1829, in Bitish-occupied India, Caroline Rosetta Small was born to English parents Beaumont Dixie Small and Caroline Honora Pereira. She was born in the Lahore District in contemporary Pakistan. In 1831, her father, an assistant surgeon in the Bengal Light Infantry of the East India Company, passed away suddenly. Afterwards, on March 1, 1834, Caroline's mother wed James Frushard. Fraser was born and raised primarily in India, with the exception of two years she studied in Paris. She wed Alexander Fraser, a lieutenant in the Bengal Engineer Group at the time, on March 11, 1847. Alexander Fraser went on to have a lengthy career as a civil engineer, constructing several lighthouses and railroads across India. Both Alexander Bruce Siddons Fraser (1848-1933) and Campbell Edward Fraser (1850-1926), the couple's two sons, were born in India. Fraser's marriage appears to have failed at the same time that her writing career took off. Fraser was living alone in England by the time of the 1871 British Census, together with her sons and her widowed mother. Read More Read Less