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Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European
Elizabeth Craven’s fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one to focus on her as a writer and draw attention to the full range of her output, which raises her stature as an author considerably. Born into the upper class of Georgian England, she was pushed into marriage at sixteen to Lord Craven and became a celebrated society hostess and beauty, as well as mother to seven children. Though acutely conscious of her relative lack of education, as a woman, she ventured into writing poetry, stories and plays. Incompatibility and infidelities on both sides ended her marriage and she had to move to France w...
WOMEN'S COURT AND SOCIETY MEMOIRS: Volume 8, Elizabeth Craven, Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Formerly Lady Craven (1826), Volume I
Volume eight of the Pickering & Chatto print edition of Chatwon House Library: Women's Court and Society Memoirs.
Elizabeth Craven
Elizabeth Craven's fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one to focus on her as a writer and draw attention to the full range of her output, which raises her stature as an author considerably. Born into the upper class of Georgian England, she was pushed into marriage at sixteen to Lord Craven and became a celebrated society hostess and beauty, as well as mother to seven children. Though acutely conscious of her relative lack of education, as a woman, she ventured into writing poetry, stories and plays. Incompatibility and infidelities on both sides ended her marriage and she had to move to France whe...
The Georgian Princess
Elizabeth Craven (nee Lady Elizabeth Berkeley) (1750-1828), Princess Berkeley (though styled Margravine of Brandenburg- Ansbach), and previously Lady Craven of Hamstead Marshall, was an author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, perhaps best known for her travelogues. She was the third child of the 4th Earl of Berkeley, born near Trafalgar Square in the English city of Westminster. Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces, pantomimes, and fables, many of which were performed in London to no great acclaim. Her works include: The Sleep-Walker (1778), Modern Anecdotes of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns (1779), The Miniature Picture (1781) and Memoirs (1826).
The Beautiful Lady Craven
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The Modern Philosopher ; Letters to Her Son ; and Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar
This book offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Craven is mainly remembered for her scandalous personal life, but deserves more serious attention. She was influenced by Enlightenment ideas and took a broad interest in the events of her time. The Modern Philosopher (1790) is a satire on the egalitarian theories of the French Revolution. The intellectual Longinius advocates equality in theory as perfectly logical, but is dismayed when his household put it into practice. Its love-plot has a happy ending. Written originally in French, it is here translated for the first time. ...
