Personal Recollections

This book commences with Tonna's memories of her childhood and family life. Her earliest memories are of living in an Episcopal palace within the Cathedral precincts. The very "Englishness" of Norwich, coupled with its unique history, led Tonna firmly to believe that being raised in such a locality was instrumental in forming her deep patriotism and strong attachment to Protestantism. The spot where the martyrs suffered, the Lollards' Pit, was just outside the town and Tonna remembers being taken there by her father, who explained that it was the place where "Mary burnt good people alive for refusing to worship wooden images".