A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople. in a Series of Letters from ... Elizabeth Lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of ... Bareith. Written in the Year M DCC LXXXVI.

by Elizabeth Craven

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Genres: Nonfiction, Travel

474 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 1789

About the author

Lady Elizabeth Craven, née Berkeley, Princess Berkeley (though often styled "Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach"), previously Lady Craven, of Hamstead Marshall, was an author and playwright, perhaps best known for her travelogues. She was the third child of the 4th Earl of Berkeley, and was born in Mayfair in the West End of London.

Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces, pantomimes, and fables, many of which were performed in London to no great acclaim. She knew Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and became a close friend of Horace Walpole, who published her early works which, with later efforts, include:

The Sleep-Walker (trans. of Pont de Vile's comedy La somnambule, 1778)
Modern Anecdotes of the Ancient Family of the Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchderns (satire, 1779)
The Miniature Picture (play, 1781)
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (travel writing, 1789)
The Georgian Princess (produced 1798; published 1799). Ed. with an introduction by John Franceschina. British Women Playwrights around 1800. 15 January 2001.
Letters from the Right Honorable Lady Craven, to his serene highness the margrave of Anspach, during her travels through France, Germany, and Russia in 1785 and 1786 (travel writing, 1814)
Memoirs (1826)
Very few of her musical compositions survive:

O Mistress Mine (musical arrangement, about 1875)
The Princess of Georgia (opera, 1799)

Reviews

[Mir]

I read an excerpt from this years ago in college; should get around to reading the rest one of these days.