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Northern Ladies: Beattie to speak at Lady Anne Clifford Event in Skipton
Lady Anne Clifford, the ‘Proud Northern Lady’, died 350 years ago this year. She is for many people in northern England a heroine, for others a feminist icon. Almost by coincidence, the Yorkshire Arch...
Read morePanel Event: Early Modern Women Take to the Stage
On Thursday 15 October 2026 we are holding two performed readings followed by a panel who will answer questions. This event, entitled 'Early Modern Women Take to the Stage: Creative Responses to the P...
Read moreBeattie interviewed on Stuart Saturday Live
On Saturday 18 April 2026 Prof. Cordelia Beattie was interviewed for Stuart Saturday Live about the life and legacy of Alice Thornton by Andrea Zuvich aka the Seventeenth Century Lady. You can catch u...
Read moreBeattie to speak about Thornton project in Glasgow
Prof. Cordelia Beattie is giving a talk on Alice Thornton's Books to the University of Glasgow's Centre for Gender History research seminar on Monday 23 February 2026, 1-3pm. The talk is entitled 'Ali...
Read moreSuzanne Trill’s Inaugural Lecture
As part of her inaugural lecture, 'Beyond “Shakespeare’s Sister”: Writing Women and Literary Culture, c. 1580–1700', Suzanne Trill, will be speaking about Alice Thornton. This event will be in-person:...
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Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/