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In our latest blog post Dr Beatrice Alex shows how the marked up text underlying our digital edition can be used as a dataset. Have a look at the initial results of her computational text analysis. #DH#DigitalHumanitiesthornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

From Bloodletting to Emojis: Exploring Alice Thornton's World Through Computational Text Analytics
From Bloodletting to Emojis: Exploring Alice Thornton's World Through Computational Text Analytics

Blog article - 9 September 2024

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Two weeks today I am running an event in Chippenham exploring the lives of women before 1600 with some @vchlondon.bsky.social friends. It is part of the Maud’s Way project. See 👇 I am excited, but nervous as I usually participate in things rather than organise things.😅

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Image: Gabriël Metsu, Woman in Agony (the Death of Sophonisba) (1660). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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5 Sept 1668 Thornton became very ill #OTD#EarlyModern 🗃️

17thC painting of a clothed woman lying ill on a bed, with figures in the darkened background looking worried.
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A sad one. Thornton much fuller on this, as you'd imagine: 'That dear, sweet angel grew worse ... and when Mr Thornton and I came to pray for her, she held up those sweet eyes and hands to her dear Father in heaven, looked up and cried, in her language, "Dad. Dad. Dad!"' (Bk 2). #EarlyModern 📚 🗃️

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Image: St Anne's, Catterick; taken by Suzanne Trill. Source: NYCRO, Catterick Parish Registers, burials 1653-1893 [MIC 429].

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CN: infant death 3 Sept. 1656 #OTD Thornton's daughter, Elizabeth, died aged 18 months, and was buried at St Anne's, Catterick. The parish register records her burial, leaving out her name, which was perhaps meant to be added later. ' ___ the daughter of Wm Thornton buried the 3rd of Sept'. 🗃️

Photo of an old church with trees and grass in the foreground and blue sky above.
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