17 Sept. 1668 Alice Thornton’s husband, William, died; ‘between the hours of 11 & 12 at noon, he being on the 2nd day of June (68) forty four years of age. We having lived a dear & loving couple in holy marriage almost seventeen years’ (Book 1). #OTD

Great programme. Check out our appearance on Friday 4 October 👇

It was lovely to be at the launch event last night for the programme for this year’s PortyBookFest. I’m looking forward to appearing on Fri. 4 Oct with Suzanne Trill and Eleanor J Thom of Alice Thornton's Books. Free tickets available Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰 from Monday.

In our latest blog post Dr Beatrice Alex shows how the marked up text underlying our digital edition can be used as a dataset. Have a look at the initial results of her computational text analysis. #DH thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/202…

A fascinating dataset to analyse.

Want to see word clouds of who appears in Thornton’s books? A visualisation of their networks? Some concordance analysis? We have a post for you! #dh

Tickets for this year’s festival are now available from Portobello Library @portylibrary portobellobookfestival.com/2024/09/09/tic…

There's still time to register for our upcoming colloquium at LLCatEdinburgh - we would be delighted to see you there! Full programme and registration link here: ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

10 Sept. 1645 #OTD Alice Thornton’s sister, Lady Danby, died at her house in Thorpe, about a month after the delivery of her 16th child. She was buried at night in St Mary’s, Masham ‘by reason of the Parliament soldiers and Scots who would not let a sermon be preached’ (Bk1). 1/2

Don't forget to pick up free tickets to see Alice Thornton's Books at PortyBookFest on October 4th! Available now from Porty Library = Feeling less Summery! 🌞🥰. Come and discover our digital (online) edition of Alice Thornton's four books of her life, and explore the pages to find what inspires you!

My article on Richard Norwood's life writing is finally out with the Huntington Library Quarterly (vol. 86, no. 3): here is the link! Eva Johanna Holmberg, “An Unmoored Life: Mobility, Reading, and Life Writing in Richard Norwood’s (1590–1675) Confessions” doi.org/10.1353/hlq.20…

I enjoyed giving this talk yesterday. The portrait and embroidered casket pictured are part of an exhibition on #GawthorpeHall in the 17thC which is running until 3 November so do head along.

Many thanks to Cordelia Beattie for a fantastic sold out talk on Women's Lives in the 17th century at #GawthorpeHall. And this was our first event in the Servant's Hall, with its beautiful wooden beams and no need to climb the stairs!

*More* music for Esther Inglis? Alongside our colloquium, "Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture", we are delighted to be hosting another concert, this time at St Cecilia's Hall, on the 20th October. Booking via Eventbrite - this concert is open to all! eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-concert-fo…

This is mentioned in 3 of her books but in most detail in Book 2: 'my gown skirt wrapped about my feet and so twisted that I could not loosen it... I fell upon my hands and knees...but the very weight of my body...did so shake me that the child was turned wrong in my womb'.

Why was there a spectacular witchcraft trial in Lancashire in 1612? Join Dr Colin Penny for his talk 'Cuthbert the Bad and the Lancashire Witches' Wednesday 9 October 1pm at #GawthorpeHall to find out more. Tickets £8, booking essential bit.ly/EventsAtGawtho…