Will You Marry Me?: Six Centuries of Love Book

Contents

INTRODUCTION

GOTHIC

David to Joab, sent by the hand of Uriah the Hittite (1035 BC)

Isabella of Angouleme to King Henry of England (AD 1220)

Margery Brews to John Paston (1477)

Arthur, Prince of Wales, to Catherine of Aragon (1499)

RENAISSANCE

Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn (undated, before 1533)

Henry VIII to Jane Seymour (1536)

Archduke Charles of Austria to Queen Elizabeth of England (1567)

Queen Christina of Sweden to Prince Karl Gustaf (1644)

BAROQUE

John Russell to Lady Frances Rich, Countess of Warwick (about 1662)

Thomas Otway to Elizabeth Barry (1682)

John Hervey to Elizabeth Fulton (1695)

ROCOCO

Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707)

Jonathan Swift to Mrs. Howard (1727)

EMPIRE

Hodge the Plowman to his Sweetheart Joan (1741)

James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764)

Laurence Sterne to Eliza Draper (1767)

Friedrich Schiller to Charlotte von Lengefeld (1789)

Sir Walter Scott to Charlotte Carpenter (1797)

Field Marshal von Blücher to Frau von S. (1795)

Emperor Napoleon I to Archduchess Maria Louise of Austria (1810)

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, to Lady Augusta Murray (1820)

Prince William of Prussia to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1828)

COLONIAL

Samuel Sewall to the widow Gibbs (1722)

Samuel Parr to Jane Morsingale (undated)

Thomas Walker to Jeremiah Moore (1760s)

Abraham Lincoln to Mary Owens (1837)

THE VICTORIANS

William Hazlitt to Sarah Stoddart (1808)

Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly (1819)

Robert Schumann to Friedrich Wieck, for his daughter Clara (1837)

Prince Otto vonBismarck to Herr von Puttkamer, for his daughter Johanna (1846)

Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh (1823)

Victor Hugo to Adele Faucher (1822)

Johann Nestroy to Frälein Koefer (1855)

Count Leo Tolstoy to Sofia Behrs (1862)

Anton Bruckner to Josefine Lang (1866)

Friedrich Nietzsche to Mathilde Trampedach (1876)

Adolf Stoecker to Anna Krueger (1864)

August Strindberg to Frieda Uhl (1893)

August Strindberg to Friedrich Uhl (1893)