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