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Dorothy Osborne
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Marguerite de Valois : Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite
'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry of Mademoisell de Tournon, is soe sad that when I had read it I was able to goe noe further, and was faine to take up something else to divert my self withall'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book
Robert Ashley : Almansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conquered Spaine, His Life and Death
'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee, as I cryed an hower together for him, and was so angry with Alcidiana that for my life I could never love her after it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle : (?) Poems and Fancies
'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to blame to let her goe abroade.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: Book
William Temple : [letter]
'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't the last time, I could not read my owne confession soe offten. Love is a Terrible word, and I should blush to death if any thing but a letter accused mee on't . . .'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Manuscript: Letter
Madeleine de Scudery : Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus
'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read it first though shee were an imaginary person, and sure if any thing of that kinde can deserve it her misfortunes may.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Ovid : Metamorphoses
'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]ted marriage . . .'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Roger Boyle : Parthenissa
'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would know it to bee writt by a person of good Quality though you were not tolde it, but in the whole I am not very much taken with it, all the Story's have too neer a resemblance with those of Other Romances there is nothing of new or surprenant in them . . . '
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne Print: BookManuscript: Letter
Fernao Mendes Pinto : Peregrinacao
'have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as diverting a book of the kinde as ever I read, and is handsomly written.'
