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Love letters : 2000 years of romance

Author: Andrea Clarke; British Library.
Publisher: London : British Library, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Letter : EnglishView all editions and formats
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While many anthologies of love letters exist, a book reproducing actual love letters in the author's own hand has not previously been published and this book features 25 letters from ancient Egypt to  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Andrea Clarke; British Library.
ISBN: 9780712358255 0712358250
OCLC Number: 711050658
Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents: Letter from Isaias to her husband, Hephaestion, 29 August 168 BC --
Margery Brews to John Paston III, February 1477 --
Prince Arthur to Katherine of Aragon, 5 October 1499 --
Pierre Sala, Petit livre d'amour (letter to Marguerite Bullioud), c. 1500 --
Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, love notes in a Book of Hours, c. 1528 --
Katherine Parr to Henry VIII, July 1544 --
Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I, 18 October 1591 --
Sir Thomas Baskerville to his wife, Mary, 21 August 1595 --
Thomas Knyvett to his wife, Katherine, 26 November 1621 --
George Villiers to James I, 29 August 1623 --
Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 15/16 October 1653 --
Sir John Fenwick to his wife, Mary, January 1697 --
Vanessa [Esther van Homrigh] to Jonathan Swift, 1714 --
Horatio Nelson's last letter to Lady Emma Hamilton, 19 October 1805 --
Charles Dickens to his future wife, Catherine Hogarth, May 1835 --
Charlotte Brontë to Professor Constantin Héger, 18 November 1844 --
Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, De profundis, January 1897 --
Gordon Bottomley to Emily Burton, 17 October 1899 --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese, c. 1846 --
Christina Rossetti, Valentine poem to her mother, 1884 --
Rupert Brooke to Cathleen Nesbitt, 1913 --
Roger Keyes to his wife, Eva, 10 December 1914 --
Mervyn Peake to his wife, Maeve Gilmore, early 1940s --
Ted Hughes, c. 1980 --
Ralph Richardson to his wife, Meriel Forbes, 1964-70.
Other Titles: 2000 years of romance
Two thousand years of romance
Responsibility: edited by Andrea Clarke.

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