Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Dorothy Osborne's Letters 3
5. 1. Dorothy Osborne's Courtship 19
6. 2. An Audience of One: Dorothy Osborne as a Letter Writer 41
7. 3. Shared Privacies: Reading in the Osborne-Temple Courtship 64
8. 4. Imagining the Couple: Triangularity and Surveillance 87
9. 5. 'Dearer to mee than the whole world besy'ds': Illness and Emotional Attachment in Osborne's Letters 131
10. Afterword: A 'Round and Populous' World 155
11. Notes 159
12. Bibliography 179
13. Index 197