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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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Women’s History Month 2023, 2: Re-reading Alice Thornton's pains and perils

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...

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Women’s History Month 2023, 1: Alice Thornton and Margery Kempe

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...

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Project Team to present at the RSA, Puerto Rico, March 2023

Project 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...

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Alice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji

Alice 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) ♡....

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Citing this web page:

Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog & News'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .
https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/12/
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