Publisher's Synopsis
When Sir William Temple (16281699) and Dorothy Osborne (16271695) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families---parliamentarians and royalists, respectively---did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years.
