fowke's work started to get public attention in the 1720s, especially when "clio and strephon" was published. clio was fowke's "literary" name for herself while strephon was the poet and journalist william bond. the book was an exchange of letters in verse and prose, popular enough to be republished twice in fowke's lifetime. the first edition in 1720 was called "the epistles of clio and strephon, being a collection of letters that passed between an english lady, and an english gentleman in france, who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions both in prose and verse." the third edition in 1732 was published with some literary criticism and commentary by john porter. the title was similar, but started "the platonic lovers..."