Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach

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As Lady Craven in the late eighteenth century, EMA , wrote plays in many genres (from comedy, tragedy, and farce, through pastoral to opera and pantomime), as well as poetry and an unusual novel. Some of this work was published; many of the plays were performed in private theatres, and a few publicly. After she had crossed the frontier of respectability and lived with her second husband, a foreign nobleman, before marrying him, she published collections of travel letters and a supplementary memoir.
Black and white photo of a portrait of Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach (while she was Countess of Craven, during her first marriage, i.e. 1767-83), by Francis Cotes. She has big hair mostly brushed back and trailing strings of pearls, and wears a loosely draped pale dress with plunging neckline, a dark shawl, and an armlet and bracelet.

Milestones

17 December 1750

Elizabeth Berkeley, who later wrote as Lady Craven and then as Margravine of Anspach , was born in Spring Gardens in London, the youngest but one of her parents' eight children, of whom four died very young.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/.
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Henry Colburn.
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By 6 February 1789

Elizabeth, Lady Craven , published her Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. In a series of letters from the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Craven, to his serene highness the Margrave of Brandebourg, Anspach, and Bareith.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii.
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13 January 1828

EMA died at the Villa Craven in Posillipo, Naples, at the age of seventy-eight, having caught a chill from digging in her garden in the rain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives her title in full as Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth. Princess Berkeley was bestowed as a title of the Holy Roman Empire . Her Memoirs bear her name as Elizabeth M. B. A. B. Princess Berkeley.

Birth and Family

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