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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Author summary Lucy Cary
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Cary
LC 's mother, the dramatist and poet Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , strove for twenty-six years to be a submissive and dutiful wife.
Cultural formation Lucy Cary
Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...
Textual Features Joanna Cannan
The frontispiece depicts Oxford, and the university occupies a prominent position in the book (though JC writes fondly, too, of villages like Peppard Common where she herself lived). Her second sentence proclaims: We who live...
Friends, Associates Anne, Lady Southwell
Other social relationships of ALS can be deduced from her writings (though honorific addresses of one kind or another have to be treated with caution). She more than once addressed Cicely Ridgeway née MacWilliam, later Countess of Londonderry

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