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in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch, to a Mr Folwer a prosperous merchant. (and her mother, presumably)
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when she was eight, where she meets Mary aubrey, who was a fundamental influence in her life (the Mrs M.A. in the poems).
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after father's death, and family moves to Wales (dates?) Approx
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leaving a legacy of some thirty-three hundred pounds, most of which was divided between his wife, his son, Joshua, and his daughter.
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As Claudia A. Limbert has recently noted (Restoration, Spring 1989), sometime in the mid 1640s John Fowler's widow married one George Henley. Whether the daughter went to live with the Henleys or stayed in Mrs. Salmon's school for a few more years is unknown
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the son of her step-father by a former marriage
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She was 17, he was 54. (How the hell old was her stepfather, then?)
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James is Parliamentarian, Katherine and friends are mainly Royalist. In 1660 James narrowly defends himself against regicide.
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only lives 40 days
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Calls her husband Antenor, mary Aubrey Rosiana and other nicknames and the Katherine Philips Society of Friendship is born.
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The Matchelss Orlinda is not amused. Officially instates Anne Owen 'Lucasia' to fill the space. (She was married herself, why the difference? Or is that totally irrellevant?)
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Outlives her mother and marries Lewis Wogan of Boulston, Pembrokeshire.
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'it is finer than D'Avenant's... We have plays here in the newest mode, and not ill acted.'
Orrery is a 'successful if appalling playwright' and turns her into a dramatist. -
Lordy, Orlinda is displeased. 'no friendship is marriage proof.'
then starts translating Corneille's Pompee from the French to distract herself... as you do. -
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not happy. makes sure that the name 'Katherine Philips' is no-where near the 500 copies of Pompy which are printed.
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(date? approx)
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with
'D'avenant' -
'spring'
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