Key insights into women's multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century. Lady Mary Carey (c. 1609-c. 1680) was a noblewoman who examined her life and expressed her views in a handwritten manuscript that she intended for self-reflection and for sharing with restricted audiences of family and friends, rather than for print publication. Her poetry and prose, composed and revised between 1650 and 1658,...