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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, 'The letters [from] Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple'. In case you have forgotten who they were, you can turn to Macaulay's essay on the latter. They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are very quaint. In the notes the editor also quotes an account of the 'remove these baubles' scene by an eye-witness, who was apparently a member of the old aristocracy and tells us indignantly how the Lord Protector came into the House in 'grey worsted stockings'. They had their own way of writing love letters in those days: Mistress Osborne begins hers 'Sir' like a letter to a newspaper, and ends up 'your humble servant' or 'your faithful friend'. Almost a la Gordon. - from a 19 October 1916 letter to his father, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume I It is very interesting to read the ordinary everyday life of a girl in those days, and tho' of course they are often dull there is a lot in them you would like: especially a description of how she spends the day and another of a summer evening in the garden. It is funny too, to notice that, just like us, she says that she never wished very hard for anything in her life without being dissapointed [sic]. But then I suppose everyone in the world has said that sometime or other. It is perhaps not a book to read straight through but well worth having. - from a 25 October 1916 letter to Arthur Greeves, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume I nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Published in 1888, this work reproduced for the first time in full the letters sent by the English gentlewoman Dorothy Osborne (1627-95) to Sir William Temple (1628-99) during their courtship. Osborne first met Temple on the Isle of Wight in 1648, but both their families opposed the relationship and the couple were not able to marry until 1654. Osborne's letters are highly engaging, especially notable for their political and social commentary as well as for the details they reveal about her daily life and the clandestine courtship. Only one of Temple's letters survives, since Osborne destroyed them as soon as she had read them. While extracts of her letters had appeared in print earlier, the lawyer and author Edward Abbott Parry (1863-1943) was the first person to publish the entire collection of surviving correspondence. His edition is particularly valuable for the explanatory notes that accompany each letter. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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