The seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Berkeley
was married at the church of St Martin in the Fields in Spring Gardens, London, to William Craven
, who two years later, when an uncle died, became the sixth Baron...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Sixteen days after her first husband
died, Lady Elizabeth Craven
married her lover, the Margrave of Anspach
, at Lisbon in Portugalwith great pomp, wearing white satin and diamonds.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
Here her self-aggrandising aim is everywhere visible. She tends to retain both the upper hand and the moral high ground, even in the scene where she tells her first husband that she knows he has...