Posts tagged with 'illness'

Women's History Month 2024, 1: Alice Thornton and Daphne Lightfoot

Women's History Month 2024, 1: Alice Thornton and Daphne Lightfoot

March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. The first, by pr...

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'But I gave her all medicines': herbal remedies in Alice Thornton's Books

'But I gave her all medicines': herbal remedies in Alice Thornton's Books

On Saturday 18th November the Thornton's Books team are hosting 'Alice Thornton's Cafe' at Starbank Park, Edinburgh as part of the Being Human festival 2023. As a taster, project postdoc Jo Edge outli...

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Digital Edition: Where will our new release take you?

Digital Edition: Where will our new release take you?

We are delighted to announce the digital release of a further 81 pages of the Book of Remembrances. With half of this book now available to browse, we’d love to hear your comments on the text and the ...

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Alice Thornton on the Coronation of Charles II: The North Remembers (sort of)

Alice Thornton on the Coronation of Charles II: The North Remembers (sort of)

Charles II’s coronation was held at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661. The diarist Samuel Pepys was present and wrote about it. Alice Thornton also wrote about the coronation in two of her books, but...

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Women’s History Month 2023, 3: Remembrances of encounters with Alice Thornton

Women’s History Month 2023, 3: Remembrances of encounters with Alice Thornton

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...

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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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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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