Alice Thornton (1626 1707) was a middle-class woman who was best known for her autobiography describing the English Civil War and its effects on her life. She was the daughter of Christopher Wandesford (1592 1640), Lord Deputy of Ireland, and enjoyed a privileged upbringing. His death, followed by the Civil War, caused a crisis in the family, who eventually settled in Yorkshire in considerably straitened circumstances. This volume, first published in 1873 by the Surtees Society, contains the first published edition of Thornton's autobiography, which provides fascinating details of her life....
Alice Thornton (1626 1707) was a middle-class woman who was best known for her autobiography describing the English Civil War and its effects on her l...
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626 1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and English civil war as well as on a plethora of domestic dangers and difficulties: from her reluctant marriage, which sought to rescue the sequestered family estate and clear her brother s name, to financial crises, to the illnesses and deaths of several family members and six children, to...
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626 1707), a complex, contradi...
