Overview
[AI Summary]: Alice Thornton’s Books is a collaborative digital humanities project providing a fully searchable digital edition of four autobiographical texts written by Alice Thornton (1626-1707), an English gentrywoman from Yorkshire. The project offers rich insights into 17th-century gentry life during the English Civil War and plague years, featuring Thornton’s unique perspective as one of the few women of her time to write multiple versions of her life story. The digital edition includes modernized texts, search functionality, timeline features, and contextual resources to enhance understanding of early modern women’s lives and works.
- Institution: University of Edinburgh, King’s Digital Lab (King’s College London)
- Type: Digital edition, biographical database
- Status: Active
- Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)