Elizabeth Cary (other)
Elizabeth Cary may refer to: * Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, early modern poet and playwright *Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (née Cary), founder of Radcliffe College *Elizabeth, Lady Amherst (née Cary), wife of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst See also *Elizabeth Carey (other) Elizabeth Carey may refer to: *Elizabeth Carey (social activist) (1835–1920), Canadian social activist *Elizabeth Danvers (1545/50–1630), née Neville, Carey by her 2nd marriage, Tudor English noblewoman *Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley (1576†...

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (''née'' Tanfield; 1585–1639) was an English poet, dramatist, translator, and historian. She is the first woman known to have written and published an original play in English: ''The Tragedy of Mariam''. From an early age, she was recognized by her contemporaries as an accomplished scholar. Biography Early life Elizabeth Tanfield was born in 1585 or 1586 at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, the only child of Sir Lawrence Tanfield and his wife Elizabeth Symondes of Norfolk. Her father was a lawyer, who eventually became a judge and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Her parents were highly supportive of their daughter's love for reading and learning, which was so great that her mother forbade the servants from giving Elizabeth candles to read by at night. Elizabeth's parents employed a French instructor for her when she was five years old. Five weeks later, she was speaking fluently. After excelling in French, she insisted on learning Spanish ...
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-6 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-2; of the second, she wrote an account for the '' Atlantic Monthly''. She published ''A First Lesson in Natural History'' (Boston, 1859) and edited ''Geological Sketches'' (1866). Early life and education Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born on December 5, 1822 into a Boston Brahmin family of New England ancestry. She was born at the house of her grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Gra ...
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Elizabeth, Lady Amherst
Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the territory of New France during the Seven Years' War. Under his command, British forces captured the cities of Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as several major fortresses. He was also the List of Canadian Governors General, first British Governor General in the territories that eventually became Canada. Numerous places and streets are named for him, in both Canada and the United States. Amherst's legacy is controversial due to his expressed desire to exterminate the race of Native Americans in the United States, indigenous people during Pontiac's War, and his alleged gifting of blankets infected with smallpox as a weapon, notably at the Siege of Fort Pitt. This has led to a recon ...
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