Dorothy Leigh Explained

Dorothy Leigh
Birth Name:	Dorothy Kemp (or Kempe)
Birth Date:	Unknown
Birth Place:	England
Death Place:	England
Occupation:	Writer
Notableworks:	The Mother's Blessing
Spouse:	Ralph Leigh

Dorothy Leigh (Kemp or Kempe; died) 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.

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

External links

• Dorothy Leigh at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Notes and References

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