Two Quiet Lives: Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray

by David Cecil

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Genres: Biography

194 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1989

Reviews

[William Thompson]

A lovely and wise book about two under appreciated (in our profane age) writers.

[Colin Fisher]

What a book! It is an honest but affectionate look at the quiet lives of Dorothy Osbourne and William Temple, a loving couple from the 17th Century who faced an uphill struggle to achieve happiness together, and the scholar and poet Thomas Gray, famous for his poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. It reads easily which belies the careful thought that clearly went into it. At the end of it we are reminded both of the fragile nature of the human heart and its stubborn strength too.