Lucy Cary Explained

Lucy Cary
Birth Date:	1619
Death Date:	1650
Death Place:	Cambrai
Other Names:	Dame Lucy Magdalena, O.S.B.
Occupation:	Benedictine nun
Parents:	Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland Elizabeth Cary
Relatives:	Anne Cary
Nationality:	Kingdom of England

Lucy Cary (1619 – 1650) was an English Benedictine nun and biographer.

Biography

Lucy Cary was born in 1619 to Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, and Elizabeth Cary. She was fourth of eleven children and one of her sisters was Anne Cary, the writer. Cary's mother converted to Catholicism in 1626 and Cary converted in 1634, guided by Father John Fursdon, their mother's confessor. Cary was sent to Flanders. She joined the 'Our Lady of Consolation' convent at Cambrai 31 August 1638 and professed in 1640. Cary wrote a biography of her mother entitled The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters. Cary died in Flanders on 1 November 1650.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lucy Cary . orlando.cambridge.org . Orlando Project.
2. Book: Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages . 2007 . Yorkin Publications . en.
3. Book: Levin . Carole . Bertolet . Anna Riehl . Carney . Jo Eldridge . A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 . 3 November 2016 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-315-44071-2 . en.
4. Cary, Lucy . 2004. en . 10.1093/ref:odnb/105828. 9780198614111.
5. Web site: Who were the Nuns? . wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk.