My First Booke of My Life

by Alice Thornton

An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and English civil war as well as on a plethora of domestic dangers and difficulties: from her reluctant marriage, which sought to rescue the sequestered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803248482
• ISBN13: 9780803248489
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"