Mordaunt, Elizabeth ___ 1630c-1679 ___ British ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is little information about Elizabeth Carey on the internet. She married John Mordaunt in about 1656, and helped him in the royalist cause. Apparently, she bribed a jury trying her husband for treason. She had seven children. Her diary manuscript was found in the library at Dundalk House (which was then owned by the Earl of Roden who had married Elizabeth Mordaunt's great granddaughter) and published privately in the 1860s.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1656-1678 ___ domestic religious family health society

WEB TEXT LINKS
a bit about and extracts
googlebooks
about and some extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
English Women's Voices, 1540-1700
Two Centuries of Life in Down
 

May 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.