Martha Moulsworth

Martha Moulsworth
BornMartha Dorsett
(1577-11-10)10 November 1577
Oxfordshire, England (likely Ewelme)
Died1646(1646-00-00) (aged 68–69)
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England
PeriodEnglish Renaissance
GenreLife writing, autobiography
Notable worksMemorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widowe (1632)
Spouse
Nicholas Prynne
​
(m. 1598)​

Thomas Thorowgood
​
(m. 1605)​

Bevill Moulsworth
​
(m. 1619)​

Martha Moulsworth (10 November 1577 – c. 28 October 1646), born Martha Dorsett, was an English writer who spent much of her life in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.[1][2] Her only known literary work,[a] Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow (1632), an autobiographical poem, is one of the earliest known autobiographies in English.[3][4]

  1. ^ Evans, Robert C. (3 January 2008). "Moulsworth, Martha". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47074. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Brown, Susan; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel, eds. (2006). "Mary Moulsworth". Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Online.
  3. ^ Moulsworth 1993, p. 71: '[W]hat makes Moulsworth's poem still more interesting is its clear autobiographical focus. In this sense the poem is significant … as one of the earliest contributions to a kind of writing that was still relatively recent and fairly rare during the period when Moulsworth wrote'.
  4. ^ Evans 1995, p. 149.


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