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op109: Happy Tuesday! xo **** Here let us sit, and bless our stars Who did such happy quiet give, As that removed from noise of wars In one another’s hearts we live. Why should we entertain a fear? Katherine Philips, 1632 – 1664

QueerWelsh: Katherine Philips was known as the "Welsh Sappho", who wrote poetry of romantic friendship to her 'Society of Friendship,' from her home in Cardigan. Read more about her here:

Helenreflects: Unusual version of Purcell’s O Solitude, which is set to a poem by Katherine Philips, on a guitar with drop tuning

roaringgirle: ✨DIY printing workshop!✨ first outing of 3D-printed composing stick was a success! students set type—passages by john milton & katherine philips—& printed on a PROVISIONAL PRESS. composing stick dataset:

Elizabe58649671: Also Elizabeth Cary's *Mariam* and Katherine Philips's *Pompey*

KayleighToyra: The fact that I actually wrote my undergrad dissy on Katherine Philips and advocated for lesser known 17 century women translators to be recognised as serious writers seems fitting ❤️

RCAHMWales: The ‘Matchless Orinda’, Katherine Philips (1632–1664): a Queer Welsh Story Learn about the life of Katherine Philips of Cardigan, one of the first significant British female poets, in our latest blog:

BTSNewEngland: Congratulations to all the girls who competed at the 9th Annual Philips Academy Girls Wrestling Tournament. 130 wrestlers from 30 different schools with a clinic given by Katherine Shai!

PaulWelsh89: A page from a manuscript copy of Katherine Philips' poetry, c. 1670. "Fate hath declar'd her self, and we may see Th' Intrigue of the great Rivals Destiny..." -adaptation of the French verse tragedy, Pierre Corneille's, Pompée

totimundi: Katherine Philips T-shirt

MelanieJaxn: May nothing accidental e're appear But what shall with new bonds their Souls endear; And may they count the hours as they pass, By their own Joys, and not by Sun or Glass: While every day like this may Sacred prove To Friendship, Gratitude, and Strictest Love. -Katherine Philips

MelanieJaxn: May nothing accidental e're appear But what shall with new bonds their Souls endear; And may they count the hours as they pass, By their own Joys, and not by Sun or Glass: While every day like this may Sacred prove To Friendship, Gratitude, and Strictest Love. -Katherine Philips

iohannesflorius: "Katherine Philips her Booke" Poet Katherine Philips, the ‘Matchless Orinda’, owned this autograph MS of John Florio's "Giardino di Ricreatione" (1583). It later passed through the hands of William Oldys, Isaac Heard, and inscribed by the Rev. Joseph Hunter on 13 September 1858.

781Moksha2011: importantwomensbirthdays: Katherine Philips Katherine Philips was born in London in 1632. Philips wrote more than 100 poems, and is best known for her poetry about female friendships. She was the seventeenth century’s most widely read and...

JoshMcloughlin: Then I wrote about the seventeenth-century royalist Katherine Philips, book history and the scandal surrounding the unauthorised publication of Philips's poems in 1664.

CrimeReads: ... Marion Brunet/Katherine Grigor, Maria Gainza/Thomas Bunstead and Gary Philips!

Elizabe73262080: One of Katherine Philips's poems.

JakajackKathy: I would rather see someone like Jess Philips as a role model. Katherine always had a privileged life & I don’t think she has ever had a proper job. If your aim is to marry a Prince you are not inspiring young women.

GuzzettaLea: What in the hell is going on? So much being exposed that a crazed judge orders arrest of 2 American heroes, Gregg Philips & Katherine Englebrecht to jail! FBI won’t step up on this! Horrible!

Elizabe73262080: Also, Katherine Philips's *Pompey* was produced there in 1663

flinchumjustin5: Cute puppy and I wish all were like you Ms Tori and if from VA and I do not I guessing you and Katherine grew up together and reason why I speak so highly of Katherine Philips is because last five years I got know her and she became my best friend and I sorry no trick or treat

RobertABixler1: A federal judge has ordered the arrest of Katherine Engelbrecht (TTV) and Greg Philips to be arrested for refusing to name a confidential informant. And then what? I recall that the person who leaked a draft of the SCOTUS's decision about the Dobb's decision has not been revealed

ivressesdhier: Katherine Philips (1631/2-1664) - The collected works of Katherine Philips: the matchless Orinda - 1990 Come, my Lucasia, since we see That miracles men's faith do move By wonder and by Prodigy, To the dull, angry world let's prove There's a religion in our love.

BelphoebeCat: Katherine Philips (1632-64). *Pompey* performed in Dublin & then London, 1663. Octavo ed. of *Poems* 1663; first folio ed. of Poems and Plays 1667.

carrideen: 2. Katherine Philips, "To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship"

BelphoebeCat: Good! Thanks for letting me know (that's where Katherine Philips lived for part of her life--she's the poet whose writing I'm editing for OUP).

BelphoebeCat: Looking forward--will you include a poem or two by Katherine Philips??

martinevanelk: Today: a fascinating post by Joe Black on a copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy owned by Pleasant Rawlins, who copied verses from Katherine Philips's Pompey in it

Helenreflects: I recently saw this beautiful poem by Katherine Philips, who I only knew before as the poet of O Solitude (set to music, unforgettably, by Purcell), about a female platonic love relationship/friendship

soxgnasher: young ladies had taught 800 girls over 17 years scripture reading, cooking, housewifery, dancing and music. John Aubrey mentions Mrs Salmon ‘a famous schoolmistris, Presbyterian’ who educated ‘the most applauded Poetess of our Nation’ Katherine Philips. His next expedition to

RestorationJrnl: In “Remaking Orinda: The Role of Manuscript Copying and Print Technology in Fabricating Katherine Philips’ Legacy,” Paul Trolander argues that Richard Marriott’s 1664 edition of Philips’ poems downplays the feminism and Neo-Platonism of earlier, more authorized editions.

flinchumjustin5: You may not know myself as well as your Friend Katherine Philips but she knows myself well because I wrote to here and you know her I think

AskABadass: Is being stuck in the Friendzone a bad thing or something to be cherished? Today’s badass woman was an ardent advocate of friendship and of the love that arises between friends:

Elizabe73262080: Every time I see one of these marks of ownership, I wonder if I should write my name in my copies of early editions of Katherine Philips--just as a matter of history. What do you think? If so, in ink or pencil?

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

MEMS_Festival: Our first paper in our England after 1642 was delivered by Anastasia Parise. Her fascinating research examines how Katherine Philips and Mary Sidney used their translation skills to cleverly express their opinions in obtaining agency.

Elizabe73262080: WOW!! If you ever run across 17th- or 18th-century editions of poems, plays, and/or letters by Katherine Philips, please let me know.

paul_salzman: Delighted to say that my article on a Katherine Philips volume with a female signature in the Emmerson Collection is now up on the 'Women's Writing' journal online preprint page; if you don't have access let me know and I'll send you a copy.

GrunwaldSpier: Not everyone - who is Katherine Philips and what is 'The Matchless Orinda'?

DrFrancisYoung: Everyone makes a fuss about Katherine Philips being The Matchless Orinda, but maybe she just got herself a lighter?

Elizabe73262080: Sappho, Elizabeth I, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell (why do you ask?)

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

DonnaFerdinando: Historians: Katherine Philips wrote poems on female friendship. Katherine Philips: "There's a Religion in our Love, my dearest Lucasia!!!"

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

plastic_bio: Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame,'Tis love refined and purged from all its dross,The next to angel's love, if not the same,As strong as passion is, though not so gross:It antedates a glad eternityAnd is an heaven in epitome. - Katherine Philips

QueerWelsh: The Poems of 'Orinda,' Katherine Philips, has to be my favourite here!

Elizabe73262080: Saturday morning at 11 am you will probably want to attend a wonderful panel called "Katherine Philips in Dublin" with papers by Andrew Carpenter, Marie-Louise Coolahan, and John Cunningham--it's to be in Room 3 on the second floor of the conference center.

Elizabe73262080: Saturday morning Danielle Clarke will be introducing "Katherine Philips in Dublin" with papers by Andrew Carpenter, Marie-Louise Coolahan, and John Cunningham--11 am Room 3 on the 2nd floor of the conference center: I wish I could be there!!

OnThisDayShe: Renowned in the seventeenth century for her poems of friendship and her bestselling plays, Katherine Philips (aka 'Orinda') was a pioneering dramatist, admired by Dryden.

Elizabe73262080: Very sorry to miss these 2 sessions, since I won't be at RSA--BUT do note 2 panels on the topic "Katherine Philips in Dublin"--both on Saturday, April 2--one chaired by Margaret Ezell; the other by Danielle Clarke

Elizabe73262080: Does this book include comments on Katherine Philips??

JamesGray40: Orinda!!! Katherine Philips: Her Letters

andytowne: i made this image of Kesha and Katherine Philips and I can say that, no, their noses are not much alike but there are otherwise some interesting similarities between these two pictures.

historicwomens: A page from a manuscript copy of Anglo-Welsh royalist poet Katherine Philips' poetry, c. 1670.

mundobeach: The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips

carrideen: My classroom looking out on it was discussing Katherine Philips's "Upon the Graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks"--relevant.

IsabellaRosner: I’ll never get over how cool it is to live in the area I study. Every time I pass by St. Augustine’s Tower I think about all the 17th-century Hackney schoolgirls who passed by it, too. Susanna Perwich and Katherine Philips were here!! It makes my heart sing

thespiralcity2: 付箋 Every time I pass by St. Augustine’s Tower I think about all the 17th-century Hackney schoolgirls who passed by it, too. Susanna Perwich and Katherine Philips were here…

MelanieJaxn: May nothing accidental e're appear But what shall with new bonds their Souls endear; And may they count the hours as they pass, By their own Joys, and not by Sun or Glass: While every day like this may Sacred prove To Friendship, Gratitude, and Strictest Love. -Katherine Philips

intermittentcat: Do all the queerplatonic people, like, know about Katherine Philips?

intermittentcat: It still survives in places. My friend went to the Katherine Philips studies conference and he said it was run by these two formidable elderly ladies who were absolutely *friends*

intermittentcat: Anyway my favourite Katherine Philips poem is the one where she goes "marriage is fine, but friendship is much purer, because some people get married just to get laid whereas you only become friends if you really love someone"

toosmallathing1: This is devastating. Kudos to Katherine Philips (1631-1664) for writing absolutely savage poetry.

tjhotwatts: "to love another person is to see the face of God" and when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love".

Magdarine: Buch so: "[Katherine Philips] admitted to having 'an incorrigible inclination to that folly of riming' […]" Ich so:

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer Katherine Philips (January 1, 1631), author of the poem "To my Excellent Lucasia" et al.

giseledute: and when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

BhadmusAkeem: News: Actor and former California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially divorced Maria Shriver after the couple split over a decade ago. They were married in 1986 and had four kids together: Katherine, 32, Christina, 30, Patrick, 28, and Christopher, 24.

Helenreflects: This very unusual dropped D guitar version + voice for Purcell's O Solitude (words: Katherine Philips) really bring the music alive and reveals a hidden aspect of it that more polished, "historically correct" versions don't really capture.

kalllias: "i found God, i found him in a lover" when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

jelIyrfish: when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

gentIest: when halsey said “i found God, i found him in a lover,” when katherine philips wrote “to the dull angry world let’s prove there’s a religion in our love”

eyerythingoes: "i found God, i found him in a lover" when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

plastic_bio: I did but see him and he disappeared,I did but pluck the rose-bud and it fell,A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely feared,For ill can mortals their afflictions spell. - Katherine Philips

Elizabe73262080: I'll see you there--we have 2 panels on "Katherine Philips in Dublin" beginning at 9 am on April 2.

amberskye1209: don't text thinking about these lines Katherine Philips wrote for her "friend"

Pamphilia2: Putting this Irish Greyhound poem by Katherine Philips up here for your reading enjoyment today.

Kathrine2071: Go read Katherine Philips for spicy sapphic poems

bjirish: Does anyone else find Katherine Philips difficult to teach? My students struggled with her, and I feel like I didn't do the best job either. I think it's because (with a couple of exceptions) her poems generally feel more abstract than much of what we've been reading?

Clinkingbeard: Chris and Katherine-congrats. Busy Body Philips -shut up. Yahoo - stop wasting time on people who wish they had something meaningful to say.

lizbennett2013: Led discussion about Hester Pulter and Katherine Philips’ poems on Charles I this morning and I’m so proud of how my students really wrestled with and interrogated the texts we read. They came up with some brilliant readings!

Elizabe73262080: Also, we have had 2 panels called "Katherine Philips in Dublin" accepted for RSA in March-April. Will other twitter friends be there too??

Elizabe73262080: I haven't seen the program for MLA 2022 yet--have you? Are there to be any papers/sessions focussing on Katherine Philips (1632-64)?

Webwight: Woman of the day: Katherine Fowler Philips (1631/2–1664), “the Matchless Orinda,” influential English poet and translator. Her translation of Corneille’s Pompée was the first work by a woman to be performed  professionally on stage.

Leo_Schreats: Katherine Philips be like "historians will say we were great friends"

PoetryOutLoud: What on Earth deserves our trust? / Youth and Beauty both are dust. "Epitaph" Katherine Philips

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey, translated by Katherine Philips, paperback for $7.99

pequenoServer: 31-208-54-204 "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles In Answer to a Libelous Rhyme made by V.P." is a 17th-century poem by Katherine Philips.

jrpierce: Check out Pierre Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips , now available in a hardcover edition

KathPhilips: Corneille's The Death of Pompey: Translated by Katherine Philips , now available in a hardcover edition for $14.99

Elizabe73262080: For an OUP edition of letters written by, to, and about the poet and translator Katherine Philips (1632-64), I'm looking for items that have recently come to light. Please retweet to librarians, scholars of early modern lit, etc.

Laura_Estill: I did not realize that 17th C poet Katherine Philips ("The Matchless Orinda") was only 32 when she died.

Elizabe73262080: Will you include Katherine Philips?

anachronism412: My headcanon is that Katherine Philips was sapphic.

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RomGothSam: 5) Katherine Philips - The Matchless Orinda (1631-1644) Famous as a translator and, posthumously, as a poet, writing particularly on platonic love. She was at the centre of the 'Society of Friendship' - a literary coterie who sent letters under pseudonyms.

George61175141: I really think Mollie Philips is going places and Holbache 16.30 Lingfield looks good, but the draw worries me. Katherine Place 9/1 looks good value too.



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