Elizabeth Craven, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley
What are the links between Elizabeth Craven, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley?
Well, they all have the name Berkeley. There is a Berkeley College at Yale and there is a University of California at Berkeley. Elizabeth Craven was born Elizabeth Berkeley and got the name Craven when she married William Craven in 1767. But the connection doesn't stop there.
The University of Berkeley was named after Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) who achieved fame as a philosopher. He is regarded as an empiricist. Berkeley College at Yale is also named after him, and not only because he was an admired writer and thinker.
Bishop Berkeley came from a minor branch of the noble family of Earls of Berkeley who owned - and still own - Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. His father, William Berkeley, was born into a collateral branch of the family, and went into the army. George went into the church, and attempted to found a college in Bermuda, which was then a British colony. He also travelled to America, and spent several years in Rhode Island. But the British government never provided the necessary funding for his scheme, so he returned to England. However, he donated an entire library of theological and philosophical books to Yale, forming the core of their academic collection. In gratitude, they named Berkeley College after him.
Later in the nineteenth century, the West coast town of Berkeley was named after him, as his ideas were much respected. Then the university was built there.
Elizabeth Craven, who was born into the same Berkeley family, was not able to go to university, as in her time only men could do that, a fact she much deplored. One of her earliest poems laments "what education to thy sex denied." And she never actually visited the USA. America was one of the places that this adventurous, liberated woman never quite round to seeing, though she travelled to a dozen other countries.
However, she was a strong supporter of American independence, and wrote a satirical poem making fun of the British government's failure to suppress the rebellion of 1776. During the War of American Independence, she and her friends showed their support for American republicans who strayed into England, where they were not welcome to the government.
To find out more about Elizabeth Craven's writings and her political ideas, see this new book.
https://vernonpress.com/title?id=334
23 Jun 2017 - Elizabeth Craven's fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one ...
http://doe100.berkeley.edu/george_berkeley.html
http://www.iep.utm.edu/berkeley/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Berkeley
http://berkeleydivinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/BDSFeb12Newsletter.pdf
http://www.rotwang.co.uk/main_line.html
https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/BERKELEY
Elizabeth Craven from a sketch published in 1804.
The University of Berkeley was named after Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) who achieved fame as a philosopher. He is regarded as an empiricist. Berkeley College at Yale is also named after him, and not only because he was an admired writer and thinker.
Bishop Berkeley came from a minor branch of the noble family of Earls of Berkeley who owned - and still own - Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. His father, William Berkeley, was born into a collateral branch of the family, and went into the army. George went into the church, and attempted to found a college in Bermuda, which was then a British colony. He also travelled to America, and spent several years in Rhode Island. But the British government never provided the necessary funding for his scheme, so he returned to England. However, he donated an entire library of theological and philosophical books to Yale, forming the core of their academic collection. In gratitude, they named Berkeley College after him.
Later in the nineteenth century, the West coast town of Berkeley was named after him, as his ideas were much respected. Then the university was built there.
However, she was a strong supporter of American independence, and wrote a satirical poem making fun of the British government's failure to suppress the rebellion of 1776. During the War of American Independence, she and her friends showed their support for American republicans who strayed into England, where they were not welcome to the government.
To find out more about Elizabeth Craven's writings and her political ideas, see this new book.
Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European ...
https://vernonpress.com/title?id=334
23 Jun 2017 - Elizabeth Craven's fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one ...
http://doe100.berkeley.edu/george_berkeley.html
http://www.iep.utm.edu/berkeley/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Berkeley
http://berkeleydivinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/BDSFeb12Newsletter.pdf
http://www.rotwang.co.uk/main_line.html
https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/BERKELEY
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