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Anonymous Flemish master, 'Young woman on her deathbed', c.1621. The woman is lying in a bed underneath a blanket with her hands on top of the blanket. Her head is rested on a big pillow.
31 March 2025

3 Funerals and a Wedding? A Seventeenth-century Woman’s Reasons for Writing

This post asks what motivated a Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Thornton, to write four accounts of her life in the late seventeenth century. From losing her own mother to wanting to […]

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