We have reached the end of our AHRC-funded project and are delighted to announce that the full and final version of our Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) of Alice Thornton’s Books is now available. Ther...
Read moreMy very first encounter with Alice Thornton’s writing was way back in 1988 when Elspeth Graham, Elaine Hobby, Hilary Hinds and Helen Wilcox were working on the anthology that was to become Her Own Lif...
Read morePreviously, as we approached the anniversary of the execution of Charles I (30 January 1649), Cordelia Beattie explored Thornton’s ‘Curious Account’ of the king’s final days; this year, I will take a ...
Read moreAlice Thornton describes many medical encounters and illnesses in her four Books, and some episodes are recounted and retold in later volumes. In December 2022, I wrote a blog post on Thornton and tra...
Read moreA new feature on the Alice Thornton’s Books website, the text search, is now live. This makes it even easier to search within the pages of the digital edition. In this post, we’ll take a look at the d...
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