Read about some of our findings on Alice Thornton and her four manuscripts in this UKRI post on our funded project: ukri.org/news/ahrc-project-she#Memoirs #17thcentury #WomensHistory #LifeWriting @earlymodern @histodons @histodon @litodons
There is a partial #solareclipse today (UK, Europe, northwest Africa, northeastern North America, Iceland, and Greenland). Did you know that Alice Thornton witnessed a full eclipse in 1652 and later wrote about it? thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/b#EarlyModern @earlymodern @histodons @histodon @litodons #17thcentury
For #internationalwomensday check out our timeline of the eventful life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707). What made 1668 a peak year? Her husband died and her 14-year-old daughter married. But, of the 31 events we have marked up in our Digital Edition for that year, 13 are event type 'Slander'.thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/timelin
Big news! The #digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/n#womenshistorymonth #WomenInHistory @earlymodern @histodons @histodon @litodons
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