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Virginia Randolph Cary (January 30, 1786 – May 2, 1852) was an American writer. She was the author of Letters on Female Character, Addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of Her Mother (1828), an influential advice book. Early life and familyVirginia Randolph Cary was born on January 30, 1786, most likely in Goochland County, Virginia, at Tuckahoe, the plantation owned by her parents. Her twelve sisters and brothers included Mary Randolph (1762–1828), author of the influential cookbook The Virginia House-Wife (1824), and Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (1768–1828), who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1803 to 1807 and as Governor of Virginia from 1819 to 1822. After her mother died in 1789, the three year old Cary lived at Monticello in Albemarle County, Virginia with her brother and sister-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson (1772–1836), the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Her sister Judith married William Randolph's great-grandson, Richard Randolph of Bizarre. His paternal ancestors included Pocahontas, the youngest daughter of Chief Powhatan and her English-born husband John Rolfe.[1] WorksAfter the death of her husband in 1823, as a widow, she published four major works:
Personal lifeOn August 28, 1805 she married her cousin Wilson Jefferson Cary (1783-1823), of Fluvanna County, Virginia. They had six children:
Cary died in Alexandria, Virginia, and is buried in Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery. DescendantsHer granddaughter was the writer Constance Cary (1843–1920), who was one of three women to sew the first examples of the Confederate Battle Flag. She was married to Burton Harrison (1838–1904).[4] Another granddaughter was Hetty Cary (1806–1877), who married John Pegram (1832–1865) and later Henry Newell Martin (1848–1896). See also
References1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tyQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176 Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families, p. 161] 2. ^Spencer, Richard Henry, "The Carlyle Family. Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle," William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. XVIII. No. 4., Apr. 1910: 284. 3. ^{{cite book | last = Pecquet du Bellet | first = Louise | authorlink = |author2=Edward Jaquelin |author3=Martha Cary Jaquelin | title = Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 2 | publisher = Bell | year = 1907 | location = | page = 81 | url = https://books.google.com/?id=tyQSAAAAYAAJ | doi = | id = | isbn = }} 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tyQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176 Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families, p. 81,2] Sources
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