‘“Embracing Submission”: Motherhood, Marriage and Mortality in Katherine Thomas’s Seventeenth-Century “Commonplace Book” (NLW MS 4340A)’.

This article discusses the Commonplace Book of Katherine Thomas, a little-known early modern woman writer preserved in the National Library of Wales. It considers what the Book reveals about Thomas's life and concerns, and pays particular attention to the moving elegies that she composed on the deaths of her husband and two of her children.