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Cary, Elizabeth (1585 - 1639)

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Short name Cary, Elizabeth
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First name Elizabeth
Birth name Tanfield
Married name
Alternative name Viscountess Falkland — Elizabeth Tanfield
Date of birth 1585
Date of death 1639
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Burford
Place of death London
Lived in England
Place of residence notes
Mother
Father
Children Cary, Lucy
Religion / ideology Catholic, Protestant
Education Educated at home, Self-educated
Aristocratic title Viscountess Falkland
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Cary, Henry 1602-None Married
Cary, Elizabeth was ...
related to Cary, Lucy
Profession(s)
Memberships Literary Circle “Countess of Pembroke”
Place(s) of Residence England
Circulations of Cary, Elizabeth, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Cary, Elizabeth, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
The Lady Falkland: Her Life Cary, Lucy 1645 is biography of

MENTIONED IN: - Stevenson, in Weissbort/Eysteinsson, Translation - Theory and Practice 2009, 133

Married at age 15 to Sir Henry Cary, later Viscount of Falkland. 11 children.
Upper middle class.
"The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II" was published years after she died. Translator from French.