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
Textual Production Michael Field
The play, finished since 1905, shares its subject with Elizabeth Cary Falkland 's early seventeenth-century drama The Tragedie of Mariam.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
GF 's biography entitled The Life of Elisabeth, Lady Falkland , 1585-1639, appears to have been her final work.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
Fullerton was also responsible for a number of non-fictional works, usually biographies of a religious bent, including The Life of St. Frances of Rome (1855), Apostleship in Humble Life: a Sketch of the Life of...
Textual Production Lucy Cary
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.
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Textual Production Clemence Dane
In this play CD addressed the same subject-matter as the first known original play in English by a woman, Mariam, 1612, by Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland .

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