This AHRC-funded research project, in partnership with Durham Cathedral, is creating an online digital edition of the four autobiographical manuscripts written by Alice Thornton (1626-1707). Born into a family of English gentry in seventeenth-century Yorkshire, at a time of civil war, plague, and a high infant mortality rate, Thornton repeatedly chronicled the accidents, misfortunes, and blessings of her life as a wife, a mother, and a widow. Utilizing experience and lessons learned from earlier projects it has worked on, KDL is trying to build an edition framework which is lightweight and easy to maintain, with generalized components that can be used by many different projects and which interact with each other in standardized, predictable ways.
Team
- Arianna Ciula KDL Research Software Analyst
- Cordelia Beattie Principal investigator
- Ginestra Ferraro RSE team member
- Joanne Edge Researcher
- Paul Caton KDL RSE team member
- Priyal Shah RSE team member
- Sharon Howard Researcher
- Suzanne Trill Researcher
- Tiffany Ong KDL RSE team member
Project links
Partner institution
- University of Edinburgh
- 2021–2024
Keywords
- Languages and Literature
- Digital edition