Eliza S. Craven Green (10 December 1803 – 11 March 1866) was an English poet, writer, and actress.

Biography

Eliza Craven was born in Kirkgate,

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, on 10 December 1803. In her youth she spent some time in

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, at the New Theatre on Athol Street as an actor. Subsequently, she lived at

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, but she returned to

, where she resided for many years. She married James Green in 1828, at which point she began to publish her poetry not as "Eliza Craven", but as "Eliza Craven Green". Her first book was 'A Legend of Mona, a Tale, in two Cantos,'

1825, 8vo, and her second and last, 'Sea Weeds and Heath Flowers, or Memories of Mona,' Douglas, 1858, 8vo. She was a frequent contributor of poetry and prose sketches to the periodical press. She wrote for the 'Phœnix,' 1828, and the 'Falcon,' 1831, both Manchester magazines; for the 'Oddfellows' Magazine, 1841 and later; for the '

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', ' Le Follet', 'Hogg's Instructor', and '

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', and contributed to a volume of poems entitled 'The Festive Wreath,' published at Manchester in 1842. Today she is perhaps best known for having written the poem, Ellan Vannin, in 1854, and is often referred to as the "alternative national anthem" for the Isle of Man. A few years before her death she received a gift from the queen's

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. She died in Leeds on 11 March 1866 and is buried at St Mark's Cemetery, Woodhouse.

References

*
"Eliza Craven Green"
on manxliterature.com (Retrieved 4 February 2015)

External links

''Sea Weeds and Heath Flowers, or, Memories of Mona''
available on manxliterature.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Eliza S. Craven 1803 births 1866 deaths 19th-century English poets 19th-century English women writers Writers from Leeds English women poets