Blog & News


Publication of Anne, Lady Halkett's A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations

Publication of Anne, Lady Halkett's A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations

Suzanne Trill (Co-I) is pleased to announce that her latest edition of Anne, Lady Halkett's autobiographical writing is now in print. Born in the early 1620s to parents of Scottish descent who were se...

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Taking it to Heart: Grief and Illness in Alice Thornton's Books

Taking it to Heart: Grief and Illness in Alice Thornton's Books

Content note: miscarriage, child illness In February 1655, Alice Thornton was in bed recovering from giving birth to her second daughter, Elizabeth (Betty), when her maid called out to her. Her one-ye...

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Project Team to take part in RSA Virtual 2022

Project Team to take part in RSA Virtual 2022

On 3 December, Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Suzanne Trill (Co-I) will take part in a roundtable on ‘Creative Approaches to Early Modern Women’. The roundtable is organised by Naomi J. Miller (Smith Colle...

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Project Team to be interviewed on the radio

Project Team to be interviewed on the radio

Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Suzanne Trill (Co-I) will be on EHFM at 5pm GMT tonight (Monday 28 November), being interviewed by a University of Edinburgh student, Jasmine Webster aka Webster's Dictionary...

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TEI and Narratives of Events in Alice Thornton's Books

TEI and Narratives of Events in Alice Thornton's Books

In an earlier post, I introduced some ways in which TEI markup and linkage can help the project to analyse patterns in Alice's writing and trace differences between her books, focusing on mentions of ...

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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/14/
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