We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Alice Thornton's Books
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Source: modernised from Jackson (ed.) Autobiography of Alice Thornton, 303.
Image: Hendrick van der Burgh, A graduation ceremony at Leiden University (c. 1650). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
12 June 1686 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to her son, Robert, about his MA graduation, 'your … designs concerning your journey to Oxford in order to obtain your degree at the commencement ... are very satisfactory and pleasing to myself and all your friends'. #EarlyModern 🗃️
Image: Robert Wittie, 'Scarbrough-Spaw' (1667), frontispiece.
Image: Memorial to Robert Thornton, Chapel of the Nine Altars, Durham Cathedral. Taken by Cordelia Beattie.
10 June 1660 #OTD Alice Thornton moved east from Richmond to Oswaldkirk, near to where her husband William was building a new family home. This move away from her natal family was very difficult and she commented on the ‘removal from my own country, friends, and relations’ (Bk 3).
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8 June 1666 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to her husband William thanking him for his letters letting her know that he was better after taking the waters at Scarborough. Dr Wittie, the Thornton family doctor, had written a book on the benefits of 'Scarborough spa'. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚
4 June 1692 #OTD Alice Thornton’s only surviving son, Robert, died. He is buried before the second of the nine altars in Durham Cathedral. His sister, Alice, wife of Thomas Comber, Dean of Durham Cathedral, placed a memorial stone there in 1695. #EarlyModern 🗃️
11 June 1666 #OTD Thomas Comber wrote to Alice Thornton from London: 'he went up about the presentation of Stonegrave living, and Mr Holland offered his daughter, with £100 a year living with her' (Bk3). Comber turned down this offer and married Thornton's oldest daughter, Nally, in 1668. 🗃️
