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Women’s History Month 2023, 2: Re-reading Alice Thornton's pains and perils
For Women’s History Month 2023, we are posting a series of reflections on our first encounters with Alice Thornton and our changing relationship with her books from then to now. Feel free to get invol...
Read moreWomen’s History Month 2023, 1: Alice Thornton and Margery Kempe
For Women’s History Month 2023, we are posting a series of reflections on our first encounters with Alice Thornton and our changing relationship with her books from then to now. Feel free to get invol...
Read moreProject Team to present at the RSA, Puerto Rico, March 2023
The annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America takes place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-11 March 2023. Project PI Cordelia Beattie, Co-I Suzanne Trill and Postdoctoral Fellow Jo Edge are pres...
Read moreAlice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji
One of the benefits of working with Alice Thornton’s original manuscripts is that we got to see that where later editors had written ‘heart’, Thornton herself had sometimes used the sign (or emoji) ♡....
Read more'A Curious Account': Alice Thornton on the Last Days of Charles I
We are nearing the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, which took place on 30 January 1649. For Alice Thornton, looking back on this c.1669 when writing Book 1: The First Book of My Life, Charl...
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Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/8/