ELIZABETH CRAVEN AND HER WORLD

It has been an eventful year for the Elizabeth Craven Society. On January 19th 2019, a reading was held of Craven's play The  Miniature Picture , at the  play-reading group of Dr Lois Potter in London University. For many,  this was their first acquaintance with the play and with Elizabeth  Craven. It was a very jolly occasion. The general verdict is that this  is still a performable play, whose comedy would amuse a modern  audience, and whose feminist ideas come over very clearly. Other highlights have included the discovery of two hitherto unknown  works by Elizabeth Craven, including the full-length novel The Witch  and the Maid of Honour, which is written about here on my blog:- https:// elizabethberkeleycraven. blogspot.com/2018/04/the- witch-and-maid-of-honour-lost- novel.html The other work, never before studied by any critic or attributed to  her in bibliographies, is Pleasant Pastime for a Christmas Evening ,  written about on ...

Elizabeth Craven's works are a lot more numerous than usually supposed. She never made a complete list of them in her Memoirs, which is a pity. Very few are mentioned in the DNB entry under her name. This catalogue is regularly updated. Abdoul, a comedy,    printed in  Nouveau Theatre de Societe d'Anspac et de Triesdorf,  ed. Asimont, Volume 2, 1791. The Adventures and Exit of Sir Tristram Fiddle-Faddle. MS tale. c.1793. In FELS, Catholic Institute Paris. An Arcadian Pastoral .  1782. MS in Bodleian Library. Epilogue was printed in The Annual Register, or a View of the history, politicks and literature of 1782 ,  ed.Robert Dodsley, p.200. Also in The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge , 1782 p.271. The Castle of Alstein, a Melodrama. Unpublished MS play in three Acts.   c.1793. FELS archive, Catholic Institute, Paris. Diane, or, Repentir des Voeux.    Ballet en un Acte, avex des Arri...