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Relatively little is known about Mary Carey, the woman who wrote a prose conversion narrative containing a number of extraordinary elegies for lost children over a period from 1649 to 1657. Scholars agree that she was born in 1609, the heir to Sir John Jackson of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, and she married Pelham Carey, younger son of Sir Henry Carey, in 1630.
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Wells, M.A. (2023). The Tears of Rachel: Lament and Affective Improvisation in Mary Carey’s Life Narrative and Poetry. In: Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27721-4_7
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