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PAULINE See also:MARIE ARMANDE AGLAE See also:CRAVEN (18o8—189r)
, See also:French author, the daughter of an emigre See also:Breton nobleman, was See also:born in See also:London on the 12th of See also:April 18o8
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Her See also:father, the See also:comte Auguste de la Ferronays, was a See also:close friend of the duc de Berri, whom he accompanied on his return to See also:France in 1814
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He and his wife were attached to the See also:court of See also: They went to live at Naples in 1853, and Mrs Craven began to write the See also:history of the family life of the la Ferronays between 183o and 1836, its incidents being grouped round the love See also:story of her See also:brother See also:Albert and his wife Alexandrine . This See also:book, the Recit d'une scour (1866, Eng. trans . 1868), was enthusiastically received and was awarded a See also:prize by the French See also:Academy . Straitened circumstances made it desirable for Mrs Craven to See also:earn See also:money by her See also:pen . See also:Anne Severin appeared in 1868, Fleurange in 1871, Le Mot d'enigme in 1874, Le Valbriant (Eng. trans., See also:Lucia) in 1886 . Among her See also:miscellaneous See also:works may be mentioned La Scour Natalie Narischkin (1876), Deux Incidents de la question catholique en Angleterre (1875), See also:Lady Georgiana See also:Fullerton, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres (1888) . Mrs Craven's charming See also:personality won her many See also:friends . She was a frequent See also:guest with See also:Lord See also:Palmerston, Lord See also:Ellesmere and Lord See also:Granville . She died in Paris on the 1st of April 1891 . Her husband, who died in 1884, translated the See also:correspondence of Lord Palmerston and of the See also:Prince See also:Consort into French . See Memoir of Mrs Augustus Craven (1894), by her friend Mrs See also:Mary See also:Catherine See also:Bishop; also Paolina Craven, by T . F . Ravaschieri See also:Fieschi (1892) . There is a See also:biography of Mrs Craven's father, " En See also:Emigration," in See also:Etienne Lamy's Temoins See also:des jours passes (1907) . |
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