Alice Thornton

Alice Thornton
Born	Alice Wandesford 13 February 1626 Kirklington, North Yorkshire
Died	January 1707
Nationality	British
Genre	Autobiographer
Notable work	My first Booke of my Life

Alice Thornton (born Alice Wandesford) (13 February 1626 – January 1707) was a British autobiographer during the English civil war. Her books were published in part in 1875.

Thornton was born in Kirklington, North Yorkshire. She started her autobiography, My first Booke of my Life, on 2 February 1669 when she was 47. The books were originally written as a defense against slander.

In August 1662 she and her husband, William, built a house in East Newton in Yorkshire.

Thornton died in 1707 in East Newton and left three books to her daughter.

In 1875 the Surtees Society published the first version of her biography. This version was expurgated. Since that time the middle of Thornton's books has been lost but the other two have been made available by the collector who owns them.

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