Episode Details

17th c Poet Katherine Philips The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 177 with Heather Rose Jones

A biography of poet Katherine Philips with a tour through some of her works.

In this episode we talk about:

• An overview of Philips’ life
• The poems of friendship
• Other poetic themes
• The neo-platonic tradition
• Reputation and legacy
• Did Philips write “lesbian poetry”?
• Poems included
  • Rosania Shadowed whilst Mrs. Mary Aubrey
  • L’Amitié: To Mrs. Mary Aubrey
  • Rosania’s Apostacy and Lucasia's Friendship
  • Friendship's Mystery: To my dearest Lucasia
  • To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship
  • Injuria Amici
  • To my Lucasia, in Defence of declared Friendship
  • Orinda to Lucasia Parting 1661 at London
  • To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship
• This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Katherine Philips

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)