Newsletter of the Elizabeth Craven Society 2025
It has been a busy year. Notably, we are very pleased to have arranged for a substantial collection of manuscripts associated with Elizabeth Craven to be deposited in the archives of Chawton House in Hampshire, the research institute for the study of women's writing in the age of Jane Austen. This is an ideal destination, where they will be available for future scholars. The collection, which was in the hands of a descendant of Elizabeth Craven, includes a manuscript volume of her early poems, more than a dozen autograph letters, and further letters that passed between her husband, the 6th Baron Craven, and his estate manager concerning their financial affairs. It is of both historic and literary significance. We have held two online seminars, one about the contents of the MS collection and the other to hear a talk given by Jill Kamp about Keppel Craven and the secrets to be discovered in his diaries. Some of these were of a colourful nature and re...