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My first booke of my life / Alice Thornton ; edited and with an introduction by Raymond A. Anselment.
- Title
- My first booke of my life / Alice Thornton ; edited and with an introduction by Raymond A. Anselment.
- Author
- Thornton, Alice, 1626-1707
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Anselment, Raymond A.
- Description
- lxi, 298 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Early modern cultural studies
- Uniform Title
- Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York
- My first book of my life
- Subject
- Thornton, Alice, 1626-1707
- Thornton, Alice 1626-1707
- Thornton family
- Thornton, Alice 1627-1707
- 1600-1714
- Women > England > Biography
- Christian women > Great Britain > Biography
- Wives > England > Biography
- Mothers > England > Biography
- Women > England > Social life and customs > 17th century
- Women
- Women > Great Britain > Biography
- Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714 > Biography
- Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Biography
- Yorkshire (England) > Biography
- England > Social life and customs > 17th century
- Great Britain
- Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Personal narratives
- Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714 > Sources
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 17th century > Sources
- East Newton (England) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- History
- Note
- Originally published in 1873 by the Surtees Society, with less of the original text, under title: The autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, of East Newton, Co. York.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-277) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780803248489 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 0803248482 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2014932946
- OCLC
- 885211928
- SCSB-11227266
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library