The Discovery of Two Missing Alice Thornton Manuscripts
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The autobiographical writings of Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626–1707) were first edited in 1875 for the Surtees Society. The editor, Charles Jackson, not only drew on three books of her life to put together one composite account but also had seen ‘a small memorandum book’ (Thornton, Autobiography, 347), which he considered to be the original draft of her autobiography.1 At this date, all four manuscripts were in the hands of the Comber family; the three books of her life he edited were lent to Jackson by Henry George Wandesford Comber, and the memorandum book was loaned by Thomas Comber of Newton-le-Willows.2 When Alice Wandesford Thornton died, she left ‘three Books...
Source: Notes and Queries
Author: Cordelia Beattie
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2990628009