HRC Seminar - A question of cosmopolitanism: Lady Craven on the world stage. - Research School of Humanities and the Arts - ANU - Research School of Humanities and the Arts - ANU
Year: 2011

Lady Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), later the Princess Berkeley and Margravine of Anspach, shared the international experience and cosmopolitan impulses of many writers and thinkers of the long eighteenth century.  Craven considered herself a literary citizen of the world: she lived on the Continent for a significant part of her life, and in addition to residences in France, Italy, and Germany, visited Poland, Russia, the Crimea, and Turkey.  ‘You know, Sir,’ she wrote to the sovereign of Anspach