Having had a career as the well known film critic CA Lejeune, from the 1920’s until 1960, much has been written about Caroline Alice (Lejeune) Thompson. And Caroline herself wrote a number of books. So there is little point in repeating what is so easily available from other sources. Instead, besides a bare bones timeline of her life, we will touch on information of a more personal nature sourced from family resources.
Caroline was born in 1897, the youngest of the Lejeune children and well separated in age from her siblings. In fact, Franziska, her oldest sister, was 19 and Marion, her next oldest sister, was 18. Caroline’s sibling closest in age was Arnold who was 10.
We have a lot of detail about Caroline’s first two years because her mother meticulously followed Caroline’s developing mental and physical skills closely, recording every minute change in a detailed 120 page document. Right from the very beginning then Caroline and Louisa had a close and loving relationship which persisted throughout Louisa’s life until her death in 1936. For all but the last ten years Louisa and Caroline lived together and although Louisa bought a house of her own in 1925, Caroline’s house was just a few steps down Pinner Hill, on the opposite side Hillside Road.
Timeline of Major Life Events
| Date | Event |
| 1897 | |
Guardian Story by Pamela Hutchinson
The Marion Project - A Family History 