diff --git a/frontend/assets/img/posts/thornton_picnic_square.jpg b/frontend/assets/img/posts/thornton_picnic_square.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2303d66ed Binary files /dev/null and b/frontend/assets/img/posts/thornton_picnic_square.jpg differ diff --git a/frontend/books/book_of_remembrances.md b/frontend/books/book_of_remembrances.md index 5df02d7f7..2f9ad0e46 100644 --- a/frontend/books/book_of_remembrances.md +++ b/frontend/books/book_of_remembrances.md @@ -63,29 +63,29 @@ Anselment notes that this volume cannot ‘be dated with any certainty’.[^1] A [The Death of the Lady Wandesford, 1659](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.33&p0.vi=modern)
[William Thornton's Birth, 1660](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.41&p0.vi=modern)
[His Death](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.42&p0.vi=modern)
-Meditations
+[Meditations](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.44&p0.vi=modern)
[My Dangerous Sickness, 1661, when I was Preserved from the Temptation of Satan to Despair](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.45&p0.vi=modern)
-[My Prayers and Meditations thereupon on St Matthew 11: 27, 28, et cetera](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.48&p0.vi=modern)
-The Recovery of My Health
-Mr Thornton's Preservation and Mine
-Considerations thereupon
-Deliverance from Grief on Nettleton's Bailiffs Coming
+[My Prayers and Meditations thereupon on St Matthew 11: 27, 28, et cetera](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.48&p0.vi=modern)
+[The Recovery of My Health](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.54&p0.vi=modern)
+[Mr Thornton's Preservation and Mine](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.55&p0.vi=modern)
+[Considerations thereupon](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.60&p0.vi=modern)
+[Deliverance from Grief on Nettleton's Bailiffs Coming](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.63&p0.vi=modern)
[A Deep Apprehension of My Change, Being with Child of My Seventh](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.69&p0.vi=modern)
[The Satisfaction of My Soul after the Receiving the Holy Sacrament First at Newton by Dr Samways](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.71&p0.vi=modern)
-A Satisfaction by the Settlement of Mr Covill for Leysthorpe
+[A Satisfaction by the Settlement of Mr Covill for Leysthorpe](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.74&p0.vi=modern)
[My Son Robert Thornton's Birth, September 19, 1662](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.81&p0.vi=modern)
[A Most Dangerous Flux on Me after His Birth](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.82&p0.vi=modern)
[Prayers and Meditations thereon](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.84&p0.vi=modern)
[My Son Robert's Baptism](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.84&p0.vi=modern)
[A Prayer and Thanksgiving for this Blessing](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.84&p0.vi=modern)
[A Thanksgiving for Mr Thornton's Deliverance from a Flood of Waters in His Return from London](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.84&p0.vi=modern)
-The Birth of Joyce Thornton and Her Baptism
-A Prayer and Thanksgiving for this Deliverance
+[The Birth of Joyce Thornton and Her Baptism](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.90&p0.vi=modern)
+[A Prayer and Thanksgiving for this Deliverance](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.91&p0.vi=modern)
[Mr Thornton's Dangerous Sickness at Stearsby and His Preservation from Death](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.93&p0.vi=modern)
[With My Own Desperate, Weak Condition upon Grief for Him](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.94&p0.vi=modern)
[Prayers and Confessions, with a Return of Thanks after Our Recoveries](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.95&p0.vi=modern)
[Meditations upon My Joyce Her Sickness](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.99&p0.vi=modern)
-Joyce Thornton Her Death
+[Joyce Thornton Her Death](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.101&p0.vi=modern)
[A Deliverance of My Daughter Alice Thornton from a Surfeit of Eating Turbot](https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/viewer/?p0.lo=p.103&p0.vi=modern)
A Great Deliverance from a Miscarriage
The Great Fire in London
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ The Death of Mr William Norton
The Falling Ill of Robin Thornton into the Smallpox
A Meditation thereon
My Daughter, Alice, Her Falling into the Smallpox
-With a Preservation from Choking in her Sleep
+With a Preservation from Choking in Her Sleep
John Denton Fell Ill of the Smallpox
My Daughter Kate was Preserved from Choking with a Pin and from a Desperate Fall
diff --git a/frontend/books/book_one.md b/frontend/books/book_one.md index 2c76b01cb..b666213e6 100644 --- a/frontend/books/book_one.md +++ b/frontend/books/book_one.md @@ -34,17 +34,111 @@ A Thanksgiving thereupon
Observations upon Accidents in Ireland, 1640
A Relation of the Lord Deputy Wandesford's Death
Meditations, and Prayer thereupon, December 3rd, 1640
-A Prayer made by my Father for the Communion
-My Mother's Preservation and my own from the Rebellion in Ireland, October 23 1641
+A Prayer made by My Father for the Communion
+My Mother's Preservation and My Own from the Rebellion in Ireland, October 23 1641
A Thanksgiving for the Same
-Upon our coming to Weschester from Ireland
-Upon my having the Smallpox the Second Time at Chester
-A Thanksgiving upon my Recovery
-Of my Mothers removal to Snape and Kirklington
+Upon Our coming to Weschester from Ireland
+Upon My having the Smallpox the Second Time at Chester
+A Thanksgiving upon My Recovery
+Of My Mother's Removal to Snape and Kirklington
My Preservation from Death in a Sickness
-The Death of my Sister Danby, September 30th, 1645
-The Death of Sir Edward Osborne , my Dear Uncle
-The Death of my Cousin Edward Norton, 1648
+The Death of My Sister Danby, September 30th, 1645
+The Death of Sir Edward Osborne, My Dear Uncle
+The Death of My Cousin Edward Norton, 1648
Upon the Beheading of King Charles the Martyr
-Upon the death of my Dear Brother George Wandesford
+Upon the Death of My Dear Brother George Wandesford
A Prayer and Lamentation on that Sad Blow, 1651
+An Elegy upon His Death by Sir Christopher Wyvill
+Observation of God's Goodness in My Dear Mother's Preservation and Her Child in the Time of the Wars and Distractions
+The Marriage of My Cousin, Mary Norton
+The Marriage of My Brother, Christopher Wandesford
+The Marriage of Alice Wandesford, December 15, 1651. A Prayer on That Occasion and upon My Sickness
+Several Remarkable Passages Since 1651
+Meditations upon the Deliverance of My First Child and that Grand Sickness following
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving
+On the Birth of Alice Thornton, My Second Child, Born January 3rd 1653
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving for That Mercy
+On the Birth of My Third Child, Elizabeth Thornton
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving for It
+The Death of My Husband's Mother
+The Death of My Husband's Father-in-Law
+The Death of My Husband's Brother, Richard Thornton
+A Prayer of My Dear Mother's before My Delivery of My Fourth Child, Katherine Thornton
+My Deliverance
+A Thanksgiving of My Mother's
+The Death of My Third Child, Elizabeth Thornton
+A Prayer upon Her Death
+Meditations after My Great Fall of My Fifth Child
+Upon My Deliverance of My First Son
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Same
+My Cure of Bleeding, August 1659
+A Thanksgiving thereon
+Considerations on the Public Troubles
+A Prayer for the Church and Restoration of King Charles, the Second, November 1659
+A Relation concerning My Dear and Honoured Mother, the Lady Wandesford, and of Her Death December 10th, 1659
+Three Prayers Concerning the Holy Communion by My Dear Mother
+My Deliverance of My Sixth Child (My Son, William) and of His Death, with Prayer and Meditation
+Verses upon the Uncertainty of Earthly Comfort
+A Thanksgiving for the Restoration of the King
+A Prayer, with Thanksgiving for Our Preservation from Destruction in This Church and State
+A Discourse upon Mr Thornton's Removal from St Nicholas to Oswaldkirk
+Upon My Great Sickness there, and of My Preservation from Spiritual Desertion, with Prayers and Meditations
+A Thanksgiving after My Recovery
+Upon Our Removal to Newton, June 10th, in the year 1662
+Meditations on the Receiving the First Sacrament Delivered in the New House at East Newton by Dr Samways, August 1662
+A Return of Thanks for That Inestimable Spiritual Mercy
+Mr Covill's Settlement of Mr Thornton's Estate for My Children, 1662
+Upon My Deliverance of My Son, Robert, My Seventh Child, September 19th, 1662
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Same
+Mr Thornton's Preservation from Drowning, 1664
+Upon the Birth of My Eighth Child, Joyce Thornton, September 23, 1665
+A Relation of My Dear Husband's Dangerous Fits at Stearsby (of the Palsy), November 16, 1665
+A Prayer and Thanksgiving after His Recovery, November 28, 1665, With My Own Preservation from Death by the Grief on His Sickness
+On My Sweet Joyce, Her Death, January 26, 1665
+On My Daughter, Alice, Her Deliverance
+Of My Dangerous Sickness, August 16, 1666
+Meditations and Prayers thereupon
+Considerations upon the Disposal of My Daughter, Alice Thornton, in Marriage, 1666
+The Great Fire in London, September 2nd, 1666
+The Death of My Dear Brother, John Wandesford, December 2nd, 1666. Meditations thereon
+My Son Robert Thornton's Preservation in the Smallpox, January 5th, 1667
+My daughter Katherine Thornton's Preservation in the Smallpox, September 29, 1666
+My Daughter, Alice, Her Deliverance in the Smallpox, January 25th, 1667
+My Nephew John Denton's Smallpox
+My Daughter, Alice, had a Pearl in Her Eye
+My Daughter, Kate, Preserved from Choking
+Her Preservation from Death by a Fall
+The Murder of My Dear Nephew, Thomas Danby, August the First, 1667
+The Birth of My Ninth Child (November 11, 1667) and of His Death, December 1st, 1667
+My Trouble upon Several Accidents (Anne Danby)
+Considerations upon Mr Thornton's Several Relapses and of the Signing the Children's Settlements for Portions, et cetera
+Upon Mr Thornton's going to Spa
+A Relation of Mrs Anne Danby's going to Howley and Several Other Passages Concerning Her, April 20, 1667
+A Relation of My Sad Condition, and the Sickness that befell Me, upon the Lies and Slanders Raised on Me, July 20th, 1668
+Lamentations and Prayers upon My Grievous Abuses and Wrongs, 1668
+My Son, Robert, Preserved, July 25, 1668
+A Relation of My Dear and Honoured Husband's Last Sickness at Malton, September 12th, 1668
+A Description of Several Passages very Remarkable about His Comforts and Assurance before His Decease
+A Relation of My Dear Husband's Death, the 17th of September, 1668
+Of His Burial
+Lamentations upon My Sad Loss
+Prayers and Meditations upon This Heavy Dispensation, with Others upon Me
+The Widow's Prayer for Herself and Children
+Our Saviour's Command
+Anagram upon Mr Thornton's Motto, and My Own
+Verses upon Christ and the Church
+Against the Fears of Death
+A Farewell to the World
+My Faithful Soul's Wish for God's Love
+Verses upon Rash Censures
+Upon My Great Deliverance at Three Years Old
+On My Deliverance from Drowning in Ireland
+A Great Deliverance from Death by Two Falls, Ireland
+A Great fire in Dublin Castle, before My Lord Deputy
+The Preservation of My Dear Father's Will
+Deliverances at Hessom Battle and in the Wars
+From Drowning in Middleham River and Swale
+Upon the Reconciling My Brothers, George and Christopher
+Anagram on George Wandesford
+Verses upon the Fatal Loss of Dear Brother George Wandesford
+Upon the Reconciling My Two Brothers George Wandesford and Christopher Wandesford before His Death
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/frontend/books/book_three.md b/frontend/books/book_three.md index 8c30d3cdb..3cb13bb7a 100644 --- a/frontend/books/book_three.md +++ b/frontend/books/book_three.md @@ -17,4 +17,19 @@ contentUrl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kingsdigitallab/alice-thornton/edi ## Dating -## Contents +## Contents + +A Prayer of the Widow to the God of Mercy and Love for His Holy Spirit to support and direct Herself and Family
+Jeremiah (Chapter 10th, verses 23rd, 24th)
+An Account of Memorable Affairs and Accidents on Myself and Family and Children, with Deliverances and Meditations thereon since My Widowed Condition, since September 17th 1668
+A Relation of Memorable Actions and Afflictions befallen to Me in the First Year of My Widowed Condition since September 17, 1668
+My Widow's Prayer and Petitions to Heaven
+The Remarkable Passages of My Life with My Three Children and of the Afflictions, Trials, Providences, Mercies and Deliverances Received from God since the Death of My Dear Husband. The First Year of My Widowhood Condition since September 17th, 1668
+The First Great and Excellent Goodness of Our Gracious God to Myself in My Preservation in Life from the Death of My Dear Husband's Loss and the Cursed Slanders of My Enemies and those Piercing Griefs which Followed My Desolate Condition
+A Collection of Letters, Papers and Verses of His Request and Court to My Daughter Alice, before and at York, and since She Returned Home from Learning Qualities with Her Sister, Kate, in the Year 1666
+A Collection of My Friends' Letters upon the Death of My Dear and Honoured Husband in Comforting Me for His Loss and My Great Afflictions
+November 17th, 1668. Letters Received from Many Friends in Order to Comforting Me in My Sad Sorrows and Afflictions and Vindication of the Marriage Showing the Causes and Prudence of this Disposal of My Daughter Alice to Mr Comber since the Marriage. Together with Copies of My Own to Many of My Friends to Satisfy Those of Them at a Distance of the Honest and Prudent Acting in this Concern by My Friends
+These Following Letters and Account of My Actions and Friends' Letters upon My Slanders and Sorrows still Followed against Me and Spread Lies by Mrs Danby's Tongue and Continued Malice after the Publication of My Daughter's Marriage, which was Done with a Great Solemnity and Regard. May the 17th, 1669
+ + + diff --git a/frontend/books/book_two.md b/frontend/books/book_two.md index 8ff2b2e25..b4d1f0b6f 100644 --- a/frontend/books/book_two.md +++ b/frontend/books/book_two.md @@ -17,4 +17,49 @@ contentUrl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kingsdigitallab/alice-thornton/edi ## Dating -## Contents +## Contents + +Job 10:20
+St Matthew 6:33
+Meditations in My Widowed Condition
+A Prayer for Myself for Support and Comfort
+An Introduction to this Book of the Remarkable Providences and Passages of My Life since My Widowed Condition, since September the 17th, 1668
+An Account of Deliverances from Death and Mercies Received since My Dear Husband's Death Begot Myself and Three Dear Children, September 17th, 1668
+Upon the Several Accidents Happened after Mr Thornton's Death and of the Administration (and Before)
+A Discourse upon the Preservation and Discovery of My Dear and Honoured Father's Last Will and Testament in the Rebellion of Ireland from the Year 1640 until the Year 1658
+Of the Providence to Me in finding the Copy of My Honoured Father's Book of Advice to His Son, George Wandesford
+Of the Manner how My Honoured Father's Last Will and Testament was Found After the Loss of it for Many Years
+Prayers and Meditations and Thanksgivings upon the Miraculous Preservation of My Dear and Honoured Father's Book of Advice to His Son, George; as also, upon the Deliverance of His Last Will and Testament from Destruction and of its being Produced again in Mercy, by which Means the Family was Preserved from Ruin in the Year 1656
+Prayers, Meditations and Thanksgivings to God for his Infinite Mercies and Deliverances showed to Me, since I was Born until I came into my Widow Estate, September 17th in the Year 1668, with an Account of His Blessings
+Prayers and Meditations and Thanksgivings upon the Change of My Condition from a Virgin Estate, since I came in to a Married Estate of Life, which was Full of Trouble, Sorrow and Changes in both My Body and Fortune, Since December 15th, 1651
+Upon My Great Deliverances and Mercies received of My First Child and the Sicknesses which followed (Nine Months, Beginning August 6, 1652 lasted until May 12th, 1653)
+Upon the Birth of My Second Child and Daughter, Alice Thornton, born at Hipswell on the 3rd Day of January in the Year, 1654
+Meditations upon the Birth of My Third Child, Elizabeth Thornton, born the 14 of February 1655
+Meditations on the Birth of My Fourth Child, Katherine Thornton, born at Hipswell, June 12th, 1656. Baptised the 14th of June by Mr Syddall. Witness: My Dear Mother, My Niece Best and Mr Thornton
+The Death of My Third Child, My Dear Betty, who died the 5th of September 1656
+Upon My Desperate Fall I had at Hipswell, being with Child of My Fifth Child, September 14th, 1657
+Meditations on My Deliverance of My First Son and after My Restoration from My Great Fall of Him. He being My Fifth Child, born at Hipswell, the 10th Day of December 1657
+Upon the Cure of Bleeding of the Haemorrhoids I received at Scarborough August 1659
+Meditations upon My Delivery of My Sixth Child, William Thornton, and of His Death, April 12th, 1660, at St Nicholas, My Aunt Norton's House (being My First Child after My Dear Mother's Decease, December 9th, 1659)
+April 17, 1660. The Birth of William Thornton
+Upon My Husband's and Family's Removal from St Nicholas to Oswaldkirk near Newton, June 1660, and My First Coming from My Own Friends and Country
+Upon My Dear Nally's Deliverance from Death by Convulsions, May 29, 1660 at St Nicholas
+Upon My Dear Kate's Deliverance from being Choked with a Pin at St Nicholas, May 17, 1660
+Upon My Husband's and Family's Removal from St Nicholas to Oswaldkirk near Newton. These Accidents happened to Me and Mine following June 10th, 1660
+Upon My Great and Dangerous Sickness at Oswaldkirk, February 13, 1661, Being on my Birthday
+Upon My Dear Daughter's Preservation from a Wound in Her Belly, 1661
+Upon a Lie made and Slander Raised on Myself and My Servant, Jane Flower, by Nan Robinson at Oswaldkirk this Year, 1661
+A Deliverance from Fire at Oswaldkirk, 1661
+Upon a Great Fright I had at Oswaldkirk, Being Big with Child Concerning a Bond, 1662
+Upon Our Coming to live at Newton after the New House was Builded by Mr Thornton and Myself (It being on June the 10th, 1662)
+My Dream, Nettleton
+On the First Coming to Newton, of the Country's Kind Respects to Me (June, July 1662)
+Upon Mr Thornton's Settlement of His Estate by Mr Covill before My Delivery of My Son, Robert Thornton, August 1662
+My Cousin Covill's Letter to Me upon the Sending for Advice upon My Jointure Deed and Mr Legard's Paper Book, which ought to have Rectified those Faults, August 22, 1662
+A Relation of the Passages happened before My Yielding to cut off the Settlement of Burn Park, Being Made before Marriage for the Provision of My Younger Children (May 6th, 1658)
+A Prayer on the Making of Mr Covill's Deed, August 1662
+An Account of Mortgages Charged upon Leysthorpe or some Part of that Land before Mr Covill's Settlement, which I did not know of until long after (about the year, 1668)
+Upon My Deliverance of My Son, Robert Thornton, My Third Son and Seventh Child, Being the First Child Born at the New House at East Newton, Whose Birth was on Friday the 19th of September, 1662
+Of My Desperate Sickness and Dangerous Condition I was visited withal, Beginning on Me August 16, 1666, and cleared of the Flux of Blood
+ + diff --git a/frontend/posts/news/2024-05-09-alice-thornton-picnic.md b/frontend/posts/news/2024-05-09-alice-thornton-picnic.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0df5a253c --- /dev/null +++ b/frontend/posts/news/2024-05-09-alice-thornton-picnic.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "Project Team to Host Alice Thornton Picnic" +feature: /assets/img/posts/thornton_picnic_square.jpg +status: live +authors: + - ethom +tags: + - events + - creative writing + - nature + +--- +The Alice Thornton's Books team is hosting a book picnic in [Starbank Park](https://friendsofstarbankpark.org/), North Edinburgh, EH5 3BX, on Saturday 8th June. This is a free event for the whole community to enjoy. + +At 12:00 and 16:00 Cordelia Beattie and Jo Edge we will be inside Starbank House offering a short talk introducing Alice Thornton and her thoughts on food and health. They will also be answering questions in these 30 minute sessions. + +At 14:00, Cordelia Beattie will be in conversation with author [Kate Foster](https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kate-foster/43803), discussing early modern women in fiction and non-fiction. Kate will read from her novel *The Maiden*, a Times Bestseller and winner of the Bloody Scoltand Crime Debut set in seventeenth-century Edinburgh. She will also read from her brand new novel, *The King's Witches*, set in sixteenth-century Edinburgh. This hour-long event is supported by [The Scottish Book Trust](https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/) and will be followed by a book signing with [Argonaut Books](https://argonautbooks.co.uk/). + +Guided walks of the park will begin from Starbank House at 12:30 and 16:30. Botanist, Heather McHaffie will introduce you to the poisons and poultices that would have been available to our fictional and non-fictional historical heroines. + +The park will be open all day, with drop-in herbal-remedy themed crafts and creative writing activities available between 12:00 and 17:00. + +For further information, and to book for our talks and our author event, visit our [Eventbrite page](https://alicethorntonpicnic.eventbrite.co.uk). Numbers are very limited, so be quick! + +Please note, the event is not catered. The park is a great location to bring a picnic and a book to read. +