Dorothy's father, Robert Ashton
, died when she was about seven, after having been out of her life, seriously ill, for about two years. Nevertheless she believed that without particularly seeking it, this eccentric, this...
Dedications
Dorothy Wellesley
She dedicated this poem to the memory of her father
, and headed its first section with a quotation from the book of Genesis (And the Earth was without form and void; and darkness...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Ashton, Robert. “Jacobean Politics 1603-1625”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 49-69.