Dorothy Leigh

Dorothy Leigh
Born	Dorothy Kemp (or Kempe) DOB unknown England
Died	c. 1616 England
Occupation	Writer
Notable works	The Mother's Blessing
Spouse	Ralph Leigh

Dorothy Leigh (née Kemp or Kempe; died c. 1616) was a 17th-century British writer remembered for The Mother's Blessing (1616).

Biography

Dorothy Kemp (or Kempe) was the daughter of William Kemp (or Robert Kemp), of Finchingfield, Essex. She married Ralph Leigh of Cheshire (or Ralph Lee of Sussex), a soldier under the Earl of Essex at Cádiz.[1][2]

The Mother's Blessing was dedicated to the Princess Elizabeth, wife to the Count Palatine. It includes a prefixed a poem entitled "Counsell to my Children, George, John, and William Leigh". In 1626, her son William was appointed Rector of Groton, in Suffolk.[1]

Dorothy Leigh died in or before 1616.[3]

Selected works

• 1616, The mothers blessing, or, The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children : containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leave as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction

References

1. Earwaker, John Parsons (1876). Local gleanings relating to Lancashire and Chesire (Public domain ed.). pp. 46–47.
2. The Society (1846). Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Public domain ed.). The Society p=156.
3. "The Mothers Blessing by Dorothy Leigh - Folgerpedia". folgerpedia.folger.edu. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

External links

• Dorothy Leigh at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography