Elizabeth Craven

Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828) was a British writer. She was especially known for their trip reports.

Biography

Elizabeth Craven was born on 17 December 1750 in Westminster and died at the age of 77 years on January 13, 1828 in Naples. Elizabeth Carven was the daughter of the 4th Earl of Berkley and his wife Elizabeth. The father died when the daughter was five years old. At the age of 16 years, Elizabeth was married to William Craven, 6th Baron Craven. The couple had seven children together, however separated after only 13 years of marriage, to divorce it never came, however.

Just three years prior to the arranged marriage with Baron Craven met Elizabeth in 1764 Margrave Charles Alexander of Ansbach and Bayreuth, Prince of Sayn. , On a trip on the occasion of the wedding of her sister Georgina to Paris know.

1782 Elizabeth Craven holds again in Paris, where it comes to approach the also forcibly married German Margrave Karl Alexander. You will receive an initial invitation to Ansbach. From 1787 to 1791 she lived in Ansbach at the court of the Margrave.

After the death of her husband and of the wife of the Margrave Karl Alexander, both die in 1791, married the Marquis and Elizabeth Craven and go together to England. There died the Margrave 1806. Craven pulls then with her son Kepel to Naples, where she is writing her memoirs. She died in 1828 and is buried at the Cimitero degli Inglesi.

Literary work

Elizabeth Craven wrote her since the age of 26 plays that they usually took over from classic patterns from France or Germany, and post-processed. Through a friendship with Horace Walpole, who promoted it, these pieces were known in English society and sometimes even at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from Samuel Foot as so-called " after- Pieces" demonstrated.

After separating from Baron Craven, at the age of 30 years, she is committed to two more years in the English theater scene, but then goes to Paris in 1782. Three years later, she takes a trip to Italy, Austria, Russia and Constantinople Opel. 1786 published a travel report about your trip in letters, the partially adjoins the model of the travel letters of Lady Montagu from 1716, some questioned the idealization critical. Between 1787 and 1791 she organized at the court of Karl Alexander in Ansbach "Nouveau theathre de Societée d' ANSPAC et de Triesdorf " in which are also given their pieces. In the situated near Ansbach Triesdorf she also tries to establish a summer residence in the English style, but is rejected by her extravagance from one part of the Margravial court and eventually boycotted.

After moving Craven attempts in England to their first successes to tie and writes a series of critically well- recorded pieces ( about: The Princess of Georgia). E. Craven wrote or adapted about 20 plays, mostly classical models, of which about half has been published. The unpublished located in her estate, which is preserved in the British Museum. Their success was variable, their pieces, however, were listed in prominent places.

Horace Walpole promoted and criticized them at the same time, he found a drama written woman fascinating. The pieces appeared partly in German translation in Leipzig and Frankfurt and were eager subscribiert, that is not self-financing.

In addition to their itinerary in letters she wrote an extensive autobiography, which was published in 1828. This is also translated into German and published under the title Memoirs. "This German edition is important because it contains multiple deviations from the English. Compare also the preface of the translator: ' Before publication of the English edition of the following Memoirs, the translator received the same from London in a manuscript, after which the German transfer was made ​​. When the printed version in English it came vorlagnachher u face, he noticed that the same of the him the submitted manuscript varied differed, however, quite to advantage of the latter, which had worked more carefully, also contained some interesting additions, while at Henry Colburn, New Burlington to be reprinted Street, published edition after the first draft volatile seemed ... ' "

Works

• The Sleep -Walker - In essence, a translation of the French drama from Pont de Ville (1778 ), which she performs in Strawberry Hill, Walpole's stage.
• Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the kink vervankotsdarsprakengotchderns. ( A German adaptation with whimsical enrichments the Absurdiäten of the German nobility life takes on the grain ), 1779.
• The Miniature Picture. ( 1780).
• The Arcadian Pastoral. . Credited 1782 6 And in the same year:
• The Statue Feast ( an adaptation of Voltaire stone guest, as we know from Mozart's Don Jovanni ).
• Anecdote from an old family. A Christmas tale. Schwickert, Leipzig 1781, reprint Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin, 1982 ( original edition: Modern Anecdote of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderm, anonymous 1779).
• ' Nourjad (French ), which was already mentioned in 1787.
• Nurjad e Fatima. (Adaptation)
• Repentir of Voeux.
• Le Disguisement.
• Abdoul.
• Le Prince Lutin
• La Folie du Jour.
• Le Philosophe Moderne ( adaptation), 1790.

During the second period English:

• The Princess of Georgia.
• The Soldier of Dierstein. Or, Love and Mercy. An Austrian story.

London, White. 1802. Microfiche edition Belser Scientific Services, Wild Mountain 1989/90. ISBN 978-3-62851134-9.

Part. unpublished. Viewable: estate of Lady Craven (including compositions) in the British Museum.

• Letters of Lady Elizabeth Craven on a journey through the Crimea to Constantinople Opel. Grief, Leipzig 1789 (original edition: .. A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinopole In a Series of Letters Chamberlain, Dublin 1789). In the pieces to their fate reflects specifically, early married or raped girls, mostly in scattered songs; as well as passages that refer to an emotion disorder.

• Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, in two volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1826 ( original edition. Memoirs of the Margrovine of Anspach, Written by Herself London 1826)