Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sir William Temple
Standard Name: Temple, Sir William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Jonathan Swift | In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple
(husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne
), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland | Her second marriage was evidently a cause for surprise, and even some disapproval (perhaps because it hinted at sexual feelings in a respectable upper-class lady in her thirties). The letter-writer Dorothy Osborne
, who was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Osborne | DO
first met William Temple
, her future husband, while travelling with one of her brothers to meet her father. Osborne, Dorothy. “Introduction”. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple, edited by G. C. Moore Smith, Clarendon Press, 1928, p. ix - li. xvii, xxi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Osborne | DO
, still looking terrible after smallpox, married Sir William Temple
. Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928. 183 Temple, Sir William, and Martha, Lady Giffard. The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1930. 7 |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Martha, Lady Giffard
, a historical writer and an early widow, lived permanently with the family. Sir William Temple employed the young Jonathan Swift
from 1689. DO
was a friend and correspondent... |
| Health | Dorothy Osborne | DO
, now in London to prepare for her wedding to Sir William Temple
, was ill with smallpox. Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928. 183 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
| Publishing | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's letters, in excerpts only, first saw print in Thomas Peregrine Courtenay
's Memoirs of . . . Sir William Temple. Athenæum. J. Lection. 433 (1836): 121 |
| Reception | Katherine Philips | Soon after KP
's death Sir William Temple
published an elegy on her, made at the Desire of My Lady Temple qtd. in Roberts, William, scholar. “Sir William Temple on Orinda: Neglected Publications”. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 57 , 1963, pp. 328-36. 332-3 |
| Residence | Susan Tweedsmuir | As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park... |
| Residence | Dorothy Osborne | Lady Temple (formerly DO
) and her husband
lived chiefly at Moor Park, near Farnham in Surrey, which he bought that year. He named it after the original Moor Park near Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Osborne | DO
wrote her courtship letters to the suitor whom she loved and whom her family disapproved, Sir William Temple
. Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928. 3, 181 |
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Texts
Giffard, Martha, Lady et al. “Introduction”. The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt., edited by G. C. Moore Smith, Clarendon Press, 1930, p. xi - xxviii.
Temple, Sir William, and Martha, Lady Giffard. The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1930.