Read my heart : a love story in England's age of revolution

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Read my heart : a love story in England's age of revolution

Title remainder

a love story in England's age of revolution

Statement of responsibility

Jane Dunn

Creator

• Dunn, Jane

Contributor

• Osborne, Dorothy, 1627-1695
• Temple, William, 1628-1699

Subject

• Gentry -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
• Osborne, Dorothy, 1627-1695
• Osborne, Dorothy, 1627-1695 -- Correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Statesmen's spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Temple, William, 1628-1699
• Temple, William, 1628-1699 -- Correspondence
• Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Biographies

Genre

• Biography
• Correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"When Sir William Temple (1628-99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627-95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families - parliamentarians and royalists, respectively - did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years." "Drawing upon extensive research and the Temples' own extraordinary writings - including Dorothy's dazzling letters, hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the glories of English literature - Jane Dunn gives us an utterly captivating dual biography, the first to examine Dorothy's life as an intellectual equal to her diplomat husband. While she has been known to posterity as the very symbol of upper-class seventeenth-century domestic English life, Dunn makes clear that Dorothy was a woman of great complexity, of passion and brilliance, noteworthy far beyond her role as a wife and mother. The remarkable story of William and Dorothy's life together - illuminated here by the author's insight and her vivid sense of place and time - offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history."--BOOK JACKET

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 942.06092/2
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DA429.T2

LC item number

D86 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography