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Dorothy Osborne. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
EARLY LETTERS. WINTER AND SPRING 1652–53
CHAPTER III
LIFE AT CHICKSANDS. 1653
CHAPTER IV
DESPONDENCY. CHRISTMAS 1653
CHAPTER V
THE LAST OF CHICKSANDS. FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1654
CHAPTER VI
VISITING. SUMMER 1654
CHAPTER VII
THE END OF THE THIRD VOLUME
Appendix
LADY TEMPLE
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Dorothy Osborne
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Temple, too, claims the consideration at our hands of a few words concerning his near relatives and their position in the country. As Macaulay tells us, he was born in 1628, the place of his birth being Blackfriars in London.
Sir John Temple, his father, was Master of the Rolls and a Privy Councillor in Ireland; he was in the confidence of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Algernon Sydney, the Earl's son, was well known to Temple, and perhaps to Dorothy. Sir John Temple, like his son in after life, refused to look on politics as a game in which it was always advisable to play on the winning side, and thus we find him opposing the Duke of Ormond in Ireland in 1643, and suffering imprisonment as a partisan of the Parliament. In England, in 1648, when he was member for Chichester, he concurred with the Presbyterian vote, thereby causing the more advanced section to look askance at him, and he was turned out of the House, or secluded, to use the elegant parliamentary language of the day. From that time he lived in retirement in London until 1654, when, as we read in Dorothy's letters, he and his son go over to Ireland. He resumed his office of Master of the Rolls, and in August of that year was elected to the Irish Parliament as one of the members for Leitrim, Sligo, and Roscommon.
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