ABSTRACT
IN 1783 LADY ELIZABETH CRAVEN EMBARKED ON A JOURNEY THAT WOULD eventually lead her to the grand city of Constantinople. In her A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, the epistolary travel account that she published in 1789, Craven wrote: “you may think me very odd in saying a voyage is a better draught to me-…but you know why I travel…and as I do, I am determined to see that place where the capital of the world ought to be… [Constantinople].”1
