Blog & News
'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 morePaper on Thornton at Life-Cycles Seminar, 24 January 2023
Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at the Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London on Tuesday 24 January at 5.30pm. The paper is titled 'Taking it to Heart: ...
Read morePublication of Anne, Lady Halkett's A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations
Suzanne Trill (Co-I) is pleased to announce that her latest edition of Anne, Lady Halkett's autobiographical writing is now in print. Born in the early 1620s to parents of Scottish descent who were se...
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 moreProject Team to take part in RSA Virtual 2022
On 3 December, Cordelia Beattie (PI) and Suzanne Trill (Co-I) will take part in a roundtable on ‘Creative Approaches to Early Modern Women’. The roundtable is organised by Naomi J. Miller (Smith Colle...
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