Butler, Katherine ( - )

Katherine 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.