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'Tragical transactions at Newton': Thornton's niece responds

'Tragical transactions at Newton': Thornton's niece responds

Last month, Cordelia Beattie wrote a blog post for the British Library's Untold Lives series about Thornton's account of her betrayal by her niece, Anne Danby. In Thornton's version of events, she had...

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Digital Edition: Partial Release (the First 22 Pages of 'A Book of Remembrances')

Digital Edition: Partial Release (the First 22 Pages of 'A Book of Remembrances')

In collaboration with our magnificent partners at King's Digital Lab, we are delighted to announce that we have transformed the first twenty-two pages of our text-encoded files of Alice Thornton’s Boo...

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Project PI Cordelia Beattie writes a blog post for the British Library

Project PI Cordelia Beattie writes a blog post for the British Library

Project PI, Cordelia Beattie, has written a post for the British Library's blog series, 'Untold Lives', about the two Alice Thornton manuscripts in their collection, when they were written, and our cu...

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Book of Remembrances: Further Information about the Partial Release

Book of Remembrances: Further Information about the Partial Release

Our ultimate aim with this project is to produce an interactive and fully searchable edition of all four of Alice Thornton’s Books that will be available to read in both modernised and semi-diplomatic...

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Project Postdoc Sharon Howard to present at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Event

Project Postdoc Sharon Howard to present at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Event

Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Sharon Howard will present a paper on "A new digital edition of Alice Thornton's Books" at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association First Annual Event on 29-30 June...

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Citing this web page:

Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .
https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/11/
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