Philips, Katherine (Fowler)

Philips, Katherine (Fowler), 1631–64, English poet. Conductor of several literary salons in London, she began the Society of Friendship under the pseudonym “Matchless Orinda.” The first collected edition of her poems appeared in 1667.

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