Dorothy Leigh

Dorothy Leigh was a 17th-century English writer remembered for The Mother's Blessing.

Biography

Dorothy Kemp was the daughter of William Kemp, of Finchingfield, Essex. She married Ralph Leigh of Cheshire, a soldier under the Earl of Essex at Cádiz.
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.

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''