Dorothy Leigh

Dorothy Leigh (died c. 1616) was a 17th-century British writer remembered for (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), who was 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]

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 leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction

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Bibliography[]

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Earwaker, John Parsons (1876). Local gleanings relating to Lancashire and Chesire (Public domain ed.).
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: The Society (1846). Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Public domain ed.). The Society.

External links[]

• Dorothy Leigh at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography