Lucy Cary

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Standard Name: Cary, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Cary
Religious Name: Dame Lucy Magdalena
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.

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Henry Cary, later Viscount Falkland , married Elizabeth Tanfield , only for being an heir, for he had no acquaintance with her.
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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Her biographer daughter, Lucy Cary , mistakenly says she was married at fifteen.
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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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Four of Falkland's daughters spent their lives in continental Europe as Catholic nuns enclosed in convents. They were Anne (1615-71, whose religious name was Dame Clementina), Elizabeth (born in 1617, Dame Augustina), Lucy (1619-50, Dame...
Reception Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Sir John Davies of Hereford, in dedicating The Muses Sacrifice, 1612, to Elizabeth Lady Cary, Lady Pembroke , and Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford , praised Cary's plays as a source of pride to...
Reception Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
ECF's name was at least kept alive by Alexander Dyce 's inclusion of her in Specimens of British Poetesses, 1825. Recent interest in her writings has generated a good deal of research and new...

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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.
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.