Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland

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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.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Tanfield
  • Married: Cary
  • Pseudonyms: E. T.; E. C.; E. F.
  • Religious: Mary in God
  • Titled: Lady; Viscountess Falkland
  • Indexed: Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
    Swan, Jesse G. “A Woman’s Life as Ancillary Text: The Printed Texts of the Biography of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary”. Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Vol.
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    , 1997, pp. 213-36.
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Milestones

1585-6

Elizabeth Tanfield (later Viscountess Falkland) was born at her father's house in Burford, Oxfordshire: either Burford Priory, or the earlier, relatively modest
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “Introduction”. The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 3-115.
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home in Sheep Street.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “Introduction”. The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 3-115.
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Probably 1597; before autumn 1602

The teenage Elizabeth Tanfield made a translation, The mirror of the Worlde translated / Out of French into Englishe / by E. T., from the geographer Abraham Ortelius .
This work was discovered and identified only in 2002.
Peterson, Lesley. “The Source and Date for Elizabeth Tanfield Carys Manuscript The Mirror of the WorldeNotes and Queries, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2004, pp. 257-63.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “Introduction”. The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 3-115.
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1602-1608

Elizabeth Cary probably composed The Tragedie of Mariam between the dates of her marriage and beginning to live with her husband .
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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17 December 1612

Elizabeth Cary 's The Tragedie of Mariam , the Faire Queene of Jewry was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it was printed in 1613.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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About 1629

Elizabeth Cary Falkland , in about a month, translated a theological work by Cardinal Perron , one of the key religious polemical treatises of the early seventeenth century.
Wolfe, Heather, editor. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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1630

Elizabeth Cary Falkland 's Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron appeared in print at Douai: the only part of her translation from Cardinal Perron to be published.
The Falkland edition of 1994 spells Douai (now in France) with a y.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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October 1639

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , died of tuberculosis, in the Catholic religion, and in her daughter's words without any agony quietly as a child, being wholly spent by her disease.
Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Biography

Birth and Family

1585-6

Elizabeth Tanfield (later Viscountess Falkland) was born at her father's house in Burford, Oxfordshire: either Burford Priory, or the earlier, relatively modest
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “Introduction”. The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 3-115.
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home in Sheep Street.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “Introduction”. The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012, pp. 3-115.
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