Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne
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237
1888
English
- 01 - Letters 1-5
- 02 - Letters 6-10
- 03 - Letters 11-15
- 04 - Letters 16-20
- 05 - Letters 21-25
- 06 - Letters 26-30
- 07 - Letters 31-35
- 08 - Letters 36-40
- 09 - Letters 41-45
- 10 - Letters 46-50
- 11 - Letters 51-55
- 12 - Letters 56-60
- 13 - Letters 61-65
- 14 - Letters 66-71
- 15 - Letters 72-80
- 16 - Letters 81-83
A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration [summary by hefyd]
After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family, including her cousin Thomas Osborne, Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) and Sir Justinian Isham, in 1655 Dorothy Osborne married Sir William Temple, a man with whom she had carried on a lengthy clandestine courtship that was largely epistolary in nature. It is for her letters to Temple, which were witty, progressive and socially illuminating, that Osborne is remembered. Only Osborne's side of the correspondence survived and comprises a collection of seventy-seven letters held in the British Library. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Note: This reading contains all the letters in the correspondence but leaves out the editorial comments.
After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family, including her cousin Thomas Osborne, Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) and Sir Justinian Isham, in 1655 Dorothy Osborne married Sir William Temple, a man with whom she had carried on a lengthy clandestine courtship that was largely epistolary in nature. It is for her letters to Temple, which were witty, progressive and socially illuminating, that Osborne is remembered. Only Osborne's side of the correspondence survived and comprises a collection of seventy-seven letters held in the British Library. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Note: This reading contains all the letters in the correspondence but leaves out the editorial comments.
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