Lucy Cary

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LC was a seventeenth-century nun (like those of her sisters to whom her work has been variously ascribed). It was presumably as part of her religious life, more than for family or literary reasons, that she wrote the life of her mother, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , which is a most unusual hagiography.
  • BirthName: Lucy Cary
    LC appears here as the probable biographer of her mother.
    Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg, 1989.
    117

  • Pseudonym: One of Her Daughters
  • Religious: Dame Lucy Magdalena

Milestones

1619

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, 1989.
117

Some time before she died

In her Benedictine convent at Cambrai in Flanders, LC (if not her sister Anne or her sister Mary ) wrote an account of her mother, entitled The Lady Falkland : Her Life by One of Her Daughters.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters. Editors Weller, Barry and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994.
183

1 November 1650

LC died in her convent at Cambrai.
Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg, 1989.
120

Biography

Birth and Family

1619

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, 1989.
117

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