Dorcas Martin – Translator, bookseller and Puritan

On this day in Tudor history, 1st September 1599, translator, bookseller, and Puritan, Dorcas Martin (née Eccleston) was laid to rest at All Hallows, Tottenham.

Dorcas was the wife of Sir Richard Martin, twice Lord Mayor of London, and although she lived much of her life in her husband’s shadow, she carved out a place of her own in Elizabethan London, even having her translations of prayers and psalms appearing in "The Monument of Matrones" (1582), the very first anthology of women's writing published in England...