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The Best Thing to Come Out of This Series

Writing this series about Katherine Philips was some of the best fun I’ve had in a long time. Thanks for following along. It brought me great happiness to remember my passion for KP. The mystery of a longing, of loves, more breathtaking than modern-day erotica. That summer of freedom abroad (even if it meant lotsContinueContinue reading “The Best Thing to Come Out of This Series”

Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford

Katherine Philips has a letter in the archives of the Bodlein library of Oxford College. My modern British women’s literature class went to the town of Oxford one week and I realized I would be in very close proximity to an original document of Philips’s. I hadn’t seen her handwriting in person yet, something sheContinueContinue reading “Across the Pond 8: Miss Bertha Better Than You at the Bodlein Library at Oxford”