Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
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John Aubrey
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Standard Name: Aubrey, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Katherine Philips | KP
's cousin Blacket taught her to read. According to John Aubrey
, she was mighty apt to learn, had read the whole Bible before she was four, and by ten could remember sermons verbatim. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Education | Katherine Philips | In 1640 she was sent to Mrs Salmon's in Hackney near London, where she probably stayed till 1646. John Aubrey
ranked this as a famous school. Hageman, Elizabeth H. “Katherine Philips (1632-1664)”. Dictionary of Literary Biography 131, edited by M. Thomas Hester, Gale Research, 1993, pp. 202-14. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Brief Lives is powerful and deceptively simple. Fay Langdon, in her seventies, reads the Times obituary of Julia Morton, and is propelled into reminiscence. Fay and Julia sound like a typical AB
duo: Basically, I... |
| Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's book on her daily life in the form of a diary, Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 391 |
Timeline
From about 1667
John Aubrey
wrote the biographical jottings on authors and other celebrities known to posterity as his Brief Lives, as part of his extensive compilation of manuscript information on many topics.
By August 1813
Some materials from John Aubrey
's archive on famous persons, later known as Brief Lives, were published.
Texts
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