Alice Thornton’s Books

Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman

AvCordelia Beattie,Suzanne Trill

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

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This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 years, using newly accessible manuscripts and archival sources.Readers will gain fresh perspectives on Thornton’s writings through a comprehensive collection of fifteen chapters that utilize a new digital edition and previously unexplored archival materials. It puts Thornton in the context of seventeenth-century North Yorkshire, England, Ireland and North America by looking at a diverse range of themes such as religion, law, colonialism, the environment, health care, memory, emotion, marriage, and family. The collection provides fresh insights on previously discussed areas, introduces new avenues for research, and reassesses Thornton’s life and significance.This book is ideal for students, teachers, and researchers of early modern literature and history, particularly those interested in women’s writings, seventeenth-century studies, and digital humanities. It provides valuable insights for anyone studying gender, autobiography, and cultural and social history in the early modern period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-23
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Pallas Publications
ISBN:9789048562534

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Cordelia Beattie is Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published widely on premodern women in Britain and Europe. She is the co-editor of Alice Thornton's Books: Remembrances of a Woman's Life in the Seventeenth Century (2025).Suzanne Trill is Professor of Seventeenth-century Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is editor of Anne, Lady Halkett, A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations (2022) and a section co-editor (‘Restoration’) for the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2025–26).Joanne Edge is a palaeographer, scholarly editor and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern medicine. Her first book, Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain, was published in 2024. She is currently preparing a monograph on bewitchment in Richard Napier's (1559–1634) astrological casebooks.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsAcronyms and AbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction. Alice Thornton’s Books: Rediscovery and ReassessmentCordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill and Joanne EdgeEditing: Then and NowChapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Editions of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the First Publication of Alice Thornton’s Autobiography (1875)Paul SalzmanChapter 2. Alice Thornton’s Books and Digital EditingSharon HowardAutobiographical Forms: Religion and RecollectionChapter 3. Alice Thornton and the Church of England: Discerning the DivineJessica L. MalayChapter 4. ‘Meditations and Transactions of My Life’: Meditation and Life WritingSuzanne TrillChapter 5. Time, Space and Embodied MemoryElspeth GrahamInterpreting Signs: Mind and BodyChapter 6. Providence’s Poems: Dream Texts and InterpretationSue WisemanChapter 7. Health, Illness and MedicineJoanne EdgeInterpersonal Relations: Family and FriendsChapter 8. Alice Thornton’s Familial LettersJulie A. EckerleChapter 9. Ruined and Scorned: Failed Friendships and EnmitiesNaomi PullinLegal Negotiations: Law and the LandChapter 10. ‘This grand concern of my life’: Marriage, Property and the LawCordelia BeattieChapter 11. Alice Thornton's TreescapesSarah ShieldsColonial Encounters: Politics and the EnvironmentChapter 12. Alice Thornton and the Irish Rebellion of 1641Naomi McAreaveyChapter 13. Climate and ColonisationPatricia PhillippyAfterword Elaine HobbyAppendix ‘A List of Alice Thornton’s Known Letters’Julie A. EckerleIndex