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Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

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.

Year of Publication: 1888Genres: Letters

Running Time: 6 hours 16 minutes 57 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	01 - Letters 1-5 Rhonda Federman	24:29
2	02 - Letters 6-10 Landii	20:51
3	03 - Letters 11-15 Anna Simon	26:13
4	04 - Letters 16-20 Annise	27:05
5	05 - Letters 21-25 breathe	27:23
6	06 - Letters 26-30 Neeru Iyer	24:27
7	07 - Letters 31-35 Ruth Golding	24:08
8	08 - Letters 36-40 Ruth Golding	40:16
9	09 - Letters 41-45 Anna Simon	23:48
10	10 - Letters 46-50 Rhonda Federman	31:31
11	11 - Letters 51-55 Anna Simon	39:44
12	12 - Letters 56-60 Anna Simon	19:28
13	13 - Letters 61-65 breathe	17:29
14	14 - Letters 66-71 Rhonda Federman	18:08
15	15 - Letters 72-80 Ezwa	6:39
16	16 - Letters 81-83 Ruth Golding	5:18