Early Life and Family
Elizabeth Craig was born in Linlithgowshire (now West Lothian), Scotland to John Mitchell Craig (then a student of Divinity) and Catherine Anne Craig (died 3 March 1929). She was one of eight children and her father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. The family lived at the Manse in Memus, Kirriemuir, in Scotland. In 1978, two years before her death, she declared that she had a "wonderful childhood in Scotland".
After having her engagement announced in The Times (a London newspaper) on 11 August 1919, she married American war correspondent and broadcaster Arthur Mann of Washington, D.C. (died 9 June 1973), at St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square. They had no children but lived with her niece (called Elizabeth Jean Craig, and the daughter of her brother Ernest Craig), featuring her in many of her newspaper articles. She retained her maiden name for the purpose of her books.
Her niece Elizabeth Jean Craig has four children: Susie Field (a former advertising executive in Edinburgh), Louise Adorian (lives in Dorchester), Deborah Henry (lives in Somerset) and Julian Henry (a public relations executive in London).
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