![]() Expanding on Barbara Lewalski’s suggestion that the Tacitean epigraph to the longer Edward II text links Cary to a new sort of « « politic » history in the vein of Machiavelli and Guicciardini », I propose that it also refers to Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a work Cary seems to have been reading after she separated from her husband in 1626. ![]() ![]() In this paper, I first consider Cary’s personal circumstances at the time her manuscripts were written, before investigating the revisions she made between the two versions of her history and assessing what these can tell us about her thoughts on her position as a woman writing history. ![]() The early modern noblewoman, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, has long been credited with writing two versions of a history of King Edward II which, although composed in the 1620s, were not published until 1680. ![]()
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