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Author: Carey, Elizabeth Sheridan

Biography:

CAREY, Elizabeth Sheridan (c. 1805-82: ancestry.co.uk)

She may have been born in Yorkshire in 1805 but no certain information has been located. She was the only daughter among four children born to William Paulet Carey, q.v., and his second wife Elizabeth Lennon who had married in Dublin in 1792. Almost nothing is known about her early life but she began to make a name for herself as a poet and contributed to Choice Selections in 1828. She established a school for girls in London with Charlotte Eale Bartlett in the 1830s; Carey’s Ivy Leaves; Or, Selections in Verse was written for the pupils. In 1841 she wrote a memoir of her father which was published first in the Sheffield Iris before being issued as a pamphlet. She contributed verse and tales to periodicals in the 1840s but moved to France in the 1850s; her address in 1858 was 41 Rue St. Martin, Versailles. In the 1861 Census she is recorded as a boarder living in the Royal Crescent, Kensington, London; Bartlett was resident at the same address. Carey is described as an annuitant. She published in Bentley’s Miscellany and in The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle, an Edinburgh periodical that was issued from May 1862 to Mar. 1865. Her verse in particular was well-regarded and in 1863 the Worcester Journal  described her as devoting her attention “specially to the cause of her sex.” No record for her has been found in the 1871 Census and by then she may have returned to France where she died on 27 Apr. 1882. (ODNB [for William P. Carey] 19 Oct. 2023; ancestry.co.uk 19 Oct. 2023; Sheffield Iris 27 Apr. 1841; The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle May 1862-Mar. 1865; Worcester Journal 19 Dec. 1863)

 

Other Names:

  • Miss Elizabeth Sheridan Carey
 

Books written (1):

Royston/ London: John Warren/ Thomas Hurst, Edward Chance and Co., 1828