KP
was much upset when her friend Anne Owen
, the Lucasia of her poetry and a key member of her Society of Friendship
, married and went to live in Ireland.
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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Friends, Associates
Katherine Philips
Whatever was the exact nature and function of KP
's Society of Friendship
, it was a group which she built for herself, to overcome the solitude of Wales and bind herself to like-minded friends...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Philips
KP
's friend Mary Aubrey
or Rosania, whom she had known almost all her life, one of the Society of Friendship
, was married, becoming Mary Montagu; after this Philips saw her only occasionally...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates
Katherine Philips
Jeremy Taylor
(apparently taking a lead from Francis Finch
, but a much better-known writer as well as a leading churchman) addressed his Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship to KP
in...
Reception
Katherine Philips
This publication confirms her links with many royalist writers. Several members of her Society of Friendship
contributed to this volume, as did Henry Vaughan
, who published a compliment to her later the same year.
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.