Carrie Hintz is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Queen's College, City University of New York.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1 Dorothy Osborne's Courtship 2 An Audience of One: Dorothy Osborne as a Letter Writer 3 Shared Privacies: Reading in the Osborne-Temple Courtship 4 Imagining the Couple: Triangularity and Surveillance 5 'Dearer to mee than the whole world besy'ds': Illness andEmotional Attachment in Osborne's Letters Afterword: A 'Round and Populous' World Notes Bibliography Index

Carrie Hintz is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Queen's College, City University of New York.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1 Dorothy Osborne's Courtship 2 An Audience of One: Dorothy Osborne as a Letter Writer 3 Shared Privacies: Reading in the Osborne-Temple Courtship 4 Imagining the Couple: Triangularity and Surveillance 5 'Dearer to mee than the whole world besy'ds': Illness andEmotional Attachment in Osborne's Letters Afterword: A 'Round and Populous' World Notes Bibliography Index

Carrie Hintz is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Queen's College, City University of New York.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dorothy Osborne's Letters 1 Dorothy Osborne's Courtship 2 An Audience of One: Dorothy Osborne as a Letter Writer 3 Shared Privacies: Reading in the Osborne-Temple Courtship 4 Imagining the Couple: Triangularity and Surveillance 5 'Dearer to mee than the whole world besy'ds': Illness andEmotional Attachment in Osborne's Letters Afterword: A 'Round and Populous' World Notes Bibliography Index