She was nursed by her friend Mary Montagu, formerly Aubrey (Rosania)
.
Greer, Germaine. “Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 79-100.
80
She was buried on this date at St Benet Sherehog nearby, with her father and grandfather.
Education
Katherine Philips
In 1640 she was sent to Mrs Salmon's in Hackney near London, where she probably stayed till 1646.
Hageman, Elizabeth H. “Katherine Philips (1632-1664)”. Dictionary of Literary Biography 131, edited by M. Thomas Hester, Gale Research, 1993, pp. 202-14.
There she met Mary Harvey, who later...
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...
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...
Textual Production
Katherine Philips
KP
wrote one of a number of poems responding to the discovery that Rosania (Mary Aubrey, now Mary Montagu
) had been secretly married.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 127-8
Textual Production
Katherine Philips
KP
and her circle had no objection to appearing in print as well as circulating in manuscript, as witness the Cartwright volume and the inclusion of several in Henry Lawes
, Second Book of Airs...