CRAVEN, PAULINE (1808-1891), French author, was born in London on April 12, 1808, daughter of the Comte Auguste de la Ferronaye, diplomatist, and for a short time foreign minis ter under Charles X. She married in 1834 Augustus Craven, who was at that time an attache in the British embassy at Naples. Her most famous work, Recit d'une soeur (1866, Eng. trans. 1868), crowned by the Academie Francaise, was drawn from her own family history. Other novels followed, and in 1888 Lady Georgiana Fullerton, sa vie et ses oeuvres. She died in Paris on April I, 1891. Her husband (d. 1884), translated the corre spondence of Lord Palmerston and of the Prince Consort into French.
See Memoir of Mrs. Augustus Craven (1894), by her friend Mrs. Mary Catherine Bishop ; also Paolina Craven, by T. F. Ravaschieri Fieschi (1892) . There is a biography of Mrs. Craven's father, "En Emigration," in Etienne Lamy's Temoins des jours passes (19o7).