Jeanne Shami, Adam Richter
Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little, "The Muses Females Are": Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995); ODNB (Article: 47074 [article for her stepmother, Martha Moulsworth]; Article: 24237 [article for her husband, Marmaduke])
Born in 1592. Only daughter of Thomas Thorowgood. Stepdaughter of the poet Martha Moulsworth (1577-1646), who married the widower Throgood in 1605. Moulsworth was very close to Elizabeth, and when she died she left a major part of her estate to Elizabeth and her children. According to her will, Moulsworth viewed her like she was her "owne childe". Elizabeth married Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), a clothworker, in 1611. They lived in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, where Elizabeth had grown up. They had sixteen children. Elizabeth was still alive by the time Moulsworth died in 1646.