Author: Matilda Cary
Author: Matilda Cary (1797–1881)
Alternate Name(s): Bedingfield (maiden name); Mrs. Stanley Cary (familiar name)
Biography: Matilda Cary was born on 8 April 1797 in Oxborough, Norfolk, the daughter of Sir Richard Bedingfield, 5th baronet. She married George Stanley Cary of Follaton House, Devon, who came from an old Catholic family. The couple had five children. As widow, Cary wrote one historical novel, The Out-Quarters of St. Andrew's Priory (1864). She never remarried and died on 28 January 1881 in Torquay.
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References: British Census (1851, 1861, 1871); Burke
Fiction Titles:
- The Out-Quarters of St. Andrew's Priory: A Tale of the Penal Times. 1 vol. Dublin: James Duffy, 1864.