“If Female Envy Did Not Spoil Every Thing in the World of Women”
Year: 2014

Lady Elizabeth Craven is preoccupied with other women's lies. This chapter examines Craven's A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, as well as her Memoirs. It identifies how Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters both legitimatises Craven's authorship and threatens to render her Journey less authentic. Landry argues that Craven's attitude towards Montagu is 'self-serving'. Women travellers who wrote could not escape the figure of Montagu. Montagu's influence on Craven is both enabling and co