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THE LOVE LETTERS OF DOROTHY OSBORNE TO SIR WILL...

The real-life love story of the British aristocrats Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple has
become a legend. After refusing a long string of suitors  including her cousin Thomas Osborne 
Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell)  and Sir Justinian Isham  in 1654 
Dorothy Osborne married Sir William Temple the love of her life. Before  they had carried on a
lengthy courtship that was largely epistolary. The letters to Temple presented here were witty
progressive  and socially illuminating  making them celebrated as the high-value works of
literature. Unfortunately  only Osborne's side of the correspondence survived. Today  it is a
collection of 77 letters held in the British Library.

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