True Fire, Noble Flame: Friendship Poetry by Katharina Lescailje, Cornelia van der Veer, and Katherine Philips

This essay examines early modern friendship poetry by women writers from England and the Dutch Republic, including Katherine Philips, Cornelia van der Veer, Catharina Questiers, and Katharina Lescailje. It argues that women used this genre to comment on the shifting definitions of public and private and especially to how these shifts affected them as women.