We would like to notify you of the retraction of the above article. Originally a runner-up in the 2005 Graduate Essay Prize, Seventeenth Century section, this article has been withdrawn due to the inclusion of copyright material without the consent or acknowledgement of the copyright holder. Ms Robin Kirschbaum apologizes for borrowing material without proper scholarly citation, and in some cases, exact wording from an article published in English Literary Renaissance:

Gray, Catharine. ‘Katherine Philips and the Post-Courtly Coterie.’English Literary Renaissance 32 (2002): 426–51, doi: 10.1111/1475–6757.t01-1-00017.

The editors of Literature Compass therefore retract this article with apologies to Professor Catharine Gray, the editors of English Literary Renaissance, and to the readers of Literature Compass.

