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Women’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 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...
Read moreTaking 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...
Read moreTEI 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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Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/6/