GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-002079
NameKatherine Butler
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Genderfemale
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Livedb. - d. (old)
Linked Manuscriptsmanuscript owner - Sermons Made By I. Donne. doctor of Deuinty & Deane of Pauls' An[n]o: Domini: 1625: MS 52.D.14
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Source of DataHannah Yip
Biographical Sources Consulted
Other NoteKatherine Butler was the owner of St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14. She compiled 123 verse extracts into this manuscript, given to her by her father, in 1696-c. 1719. See Victoria E. Burke, "'The disagreeable Figure of a Common-Place' in Katherine Butler's Late Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany" in Joshua Eckhardt and Daniel Starza Smith, eds., Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 183-199. See also Victoria E. Burke, "The Couplet and the Poem: Late Seventeenth-Century Women Reading Katherine Philips," Women's Writing, 24.3 (2017), pp. 280-297.
GEMMS record createdOctober 23, 2018
GEMMS record last editedDecember 01, 2023