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Finding Alice Thornton's Letters
The 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 moreCelebrating a Yorkshire Woman on Yorkshire Day: Alice Thornton (1626-1707)
Alice Wandesford Thornton was born at Kirklington Hall, Hambleton in 1626 and died at East Newton Hall, Ryedale in 1707. While she spent some of her formative years away in London, Dublin and Chester,...
Read moreAt the Margins of Alice Thornton's Books
"The great blank space provided by the margins" was filled with many kinds of text and image in early modern manuscripts and printed books, and a number of recent and current digital projects reflect ...
Read more'Tragical transactions at Newton': Thornton's niece responds
Last 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 moreBook of Remembrances: Further Information about the Partial Release
Our ultimate aim with this project is to produce an interactive and fully searchable edition of all four of Alice Thornton’s Books that will be available to read in both modernised and semi-diplomatic...
Read moreCiting this web page:
Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge, Sharon Howard. 'Blog'. Alice Thornton's Books. Accessed .https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/4/