Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland

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Standard Name: Falkland, Elizabeth Cary,,, Viscountess
Birth Name: Elizabeth Tanfield
Married Name: Elizabeth Cary
Titled: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Pseudonym: E. C.
Pseudonym: E. F.
Indexed Name: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
Religious Name: Mary in God
Used Form: Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
As an early seventeenth-century writer of tragedy Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , has an important place in literary history, though her play, like her first translation, was done when she was almost a child. She herself probably valued more highly her geographical, biographical and theological works, both translated and original. Her Edward II extraordinarily blends history, drama, and political commentary.
Painting of (probably) Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, by William Larkin. She is wearing court dress, elaborate from her lace head-dress and huge lace collar to her heavily decorated shoes. She stands framed between pink curtains, beside a red and gilt chair with cushion, on a figured carpet. Her fair hair is stiffly styled away from her face. She wears a blue velvet mantle with embroidered borders over a bodice tied with ribbons: that and her sleeves and petticoat are also embroidered. Kenwood House

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Wharton
AW 's father, Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley Park, about four miles from Woodstock, Oxfordshire, died of smallpox before she was born. His family had connections with Elizabeth Cary (Lady Falkland) , Lucy Hutchinson , and Katherine Philips .
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124.
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Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Cary
LC 's mother, the dramatist and poet Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , strove for twenty-six years to be a submissive and dutiful wife.
Cultural formation Lucy Cary
Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...
Birth Lucy Cary
LC was born, one of the eleven children of Elizabeth Cary, later Lady Falkland .
Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg.
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Anthologization Lady Jane Lumley
The next year, a modern scholarly edition of LJL 's work appeared, as The Tragedie of Iphigeneia, in Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss together with plays by the Countess of Pembroke

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