Mary Carey

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MC wrote in prose and verse, in the mid seventeenth century, about her spiritual life and her trials (notably, the deaths of her children).

Milestones

Between 1609 and 1612

From her own references to her age, Mary Jackson (later MC ) must have been born some time during these years.
Carey, Mary. Meditations and Poetry.
188

11 February 1648

MC wrote the earliest surviving piece in her volume, a long prose Dialogue betwixt the Soule, and the Body, on the occasion of her third son's death.
She dates this, according to Old Style, 11 February 1649.
Carey, Mary. Meditations and Poetry.
11ff

8 December 1650

MC wrote, at Covent Garden, London, a poem on the death of my 4th, & only Child, Robert Payler.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
156-7

12 May 1652

MC wrote a short poem on the death of her fifth child, Peregrine.
The baby was buried two days afterwards.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
157-8

31 December 1657-12 January 1658

MC , who now had two children living, wrote a long poem Upon ye Sight of my abortive Birth.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
158-61

After December 1680

MC died, probably in her seventies. She had outlived every one of her children, even the two who reached adulthood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
156

Biography

Birth and Background

Between 1609 and 1612

From her own references to her age, Mary Jackson (later MC ) must have been born some time during these years.
Carey, Mary. Meditations and Poetry.
188

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