Elizabeth Craven — a remark

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“The greatest part of the public has my permission to doze over the following sheets, as I expose them to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends.”

Ironic, confident dismissal of potential critics while offering her travel letters to friends · Preface, A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789)

About Elizabeth Craven

Elizabeth Craven

17 December 1750–13 January 1828

Elizabeth Craven, later Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach, was born Elizabeth Berkeley on 17 December 1750, probably at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, and died in Naples on 13 January 1828. She lived with unusual visibility across the later eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth: aristocrat…

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