Item Detail
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Berkeley, Elizabeth, Lady (1750-1828)
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Elizabeth Berkeleigh, Margravine of Anspach; other married name: Elizabeth Craven, Lady Craven; Elizabeth Berkeley Craven Anspach; A.
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travel writer, playwright, memoirist, hostess, letter writer, translator
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English
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daughter of Elizabeth Drax & Augustus Berkeley, 4th earl of Berkeley; wife of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven
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corresponded with Horace Walpole
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- Melman, Billie. Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion and Work. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1992.
- Abbatt, William. The Colloquial Who's Who: An Attempt to Identify the Many Authors, Writers and Contributors Who have Used Pen-Names, Initials, etc. (1600-1924): Also a List of Sobriquets, Nicknames, Epigrams, Oddities, War Phrases, etc. Tarrytown, NY: William Abbatt, [1924, 1925, etc. Text contains several errors.]
- Google Books
- Women, Travel Writing, and Truth. Clare Broome Saunders, ed. New York: Routledge, 2014.
- McVicker, Mary F. Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008.
- Schutte, Kimberly. Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000: An Open Elite?. Houndmills, Basingstock, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
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• wrote The Miniature Picture A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople, in a Series of Letters Modern Anecdotes of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns Letters from the Right Honorable Lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach, during Her Travels through France, Germany, and Russia in 1785 and 1786 The Beautiful Lady Craven The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire • translated The Sleep-Walker
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Pre Victorian or Post Victorian