Festival time is in full swing here in Edinburgh and this time of year is also when many of us, including the Alice Thornton’s Books team, host relatives and friends or take time off to travel. In Tho...
Read moreMarch is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’ve been bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and her links to various other women. In this final instalm...
Read moreMarch 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. In this instalme...
Read moreMarch is Women's History Month and, like last year, to mark it we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. In this third post...
Read moreMarch 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...
Read moreThursday 1st February 2024 marks the 317th anniversary of the burial of Alice Thornton, followed - on 13 February – by the 398th anniversary of her birth. To mark these occasions, this month’s post wi...
Read moreThis guest blog to mark the anniversary of the Irish Rebellion is by Naomi McAreavey, Associate Professor in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. Naomi McAreavey is editor of The Lette...
Read moreThe 1st September is World Letter Writing Day. While Alice Thornton (1626-1707) is best known for writing four books about her life, we know that she frequently communicated by letter and we have been...
Read moreLast month, Cordelia Beattie wrote a blog post for the British Library's Untold Lives series about Thornton's account of her betrayal by her niece, Anne Danby. In Thornton's version of events, she had...
Read moreOne 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 moreWe 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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