Posts tagged with 'letters'

Festival time is in full swing here in Edinburgh and this time of year is also when many of us, including the Alice Thornton’s Books team, host relatives and friends or take time off to travel. In Tho...

March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’ve been bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and her links to various other women. In this final instalm...

March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. In this instalme...

March is Women's History Month and, like last year, to mark it we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. In this third post...

March is Women's History Month and to mark it - like last year - we’re bringing you a series of blog posts, this time on Alice Thornton and various women that feature in her writings. The first, by pr...

Thursday 1st February 2024 marks the 317th anniversary of the burial of Alice Thornton, followed - on 13 February – by the 398th anniversary of her birth. To mark these occasions, this month’s post wi...

This guest blog to mark the anniversary of the Irish Rebellion is by Naomi McAreavey, Associate Professor in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. Naomi McAreavey is editor of The Lette...

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...

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...

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) ♡....

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...