About Lucy Cary
Lived 1619 – 1650 (aged 30–31). Lucy Cary was an English nun, writer, biographer and benedictines.
Lucy Cary (c. 1619 – 1 November 1650) was an English Benedictine nun and biographer, under the religious name Lucy Magdalena.
Family and early life Cary was born in about 1619 and was baptised on 23 December 1619 at St Bartholomew-the-Great in London. and his wife Elizabeth Symondes of Norfolk. She was also a kinswoman of Penelope Longueville.
Cary then herself converted in 1634, alongside her sister Mary Cary, Barbara Constable, Catherine Gascoigne (Dame Justina), Mary Tempest and Francis Lucy.
Death Cary died in Cambrai, Flanders on 1 November 1650.
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English Benedictine nun and writer (1619-1650)
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Lucy Cary. https://biography.guide/lucy-cary/
MLA: "Lucy Cary." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/lucy-cary/.
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