Books by Alice Thornton

An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, this book depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.

Alice Thornton (1626-1707) was a sixteenth-century middle-class woman best known for her detailed autobiography. This volume, first published in 1873, contains the first published edition, which provides fascinating and candid details of her life, health problems and relationships within her family.