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PHILIPS, KATHARINE (1631-1664)

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PHILIPS, KATHARINE (1631-1664) , See also:English poet, daughter of See also:John See also:Fowler, a See also:merchant of Bucklersbury, See also:London, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:January 1631. Her See also:father was a Presbyterian, and Katharine is said to have read the See also:Bible through before she was five years old. On arriving at years of discretion she See also:broke with Presbyterian traditions in both See also:religion and politics, became an ardent admirer of the See also:king and his See also:church policy, and in 1647 married See also:James Philips, a Welsh royalist. Her See also:home at the Priory, See also:Cardigan, became the centre of a "society of friendship," the members of which were known to one another by fantastic names, Mrs Philips being " Orinda," her See also:husband See also:Antenor," See also:Sir See also:Charles Cotterel " Poliarchus." The " match-less " Orinda, as her admirers called her, posed as the apostle of See also:female friendship. That there was much solid See also:worth under her affectations is proved by the respect and friendship she inspired. See also:Jeremy See also:Taylor in 1659 dedicated to her his " Discourse on the Nature, Offices and See also:Measures of Friendship," and See also:Cowley, See also:Henry See also:Vaughan the Silurist, the See also:earl of See also:Roscommon and the earl of See also:Cork and See also:Orrery all celebrated her See also:talent. In 1662 she went to See also:Dublin to pursue her husband's claim to certain Irish estates, and there she completed a See also:translation of See also:Corneille's Pompee, produced with See also:great success in 1663 in the Smock See also:Alley See also:Theatre, and printed in the same See also:year both in Dublin and London. She went to London in See also:March 1664 with a nearly completed translation of Corneille's See also:Horace, but died of smallpox on the 22nd of See also:June. The See also:literary See also:atmosphere of her circle is preserved in the excellent Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus, published by See also:Bernard See also:Lintot in 1705 and 1709. " Poliarchus " (Sir Charles Cotterel) was See also:master of the ceremonies at the See also:court of the Restoration, and afterwards translated the romances of La Calprenede. Mrs Philips had two See also:children, one of whom, Katharine, became the wife of See also:Lewis Wogan of Boulston, See also:Pembrokeshire. According to Mr See also:Gosse, this See also:lady may have been " See also:Joan Philips," the author of a See also:volume of Female Poems .

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style of Orinda, and display genuine feeling with very little reserve. See E. W. Gosse, Seventeenth See also:Century Studies (1883). Poems, By the Incomparable Mrs K. P. appeared surreptitiously in 1664 and an See also:authentic edition in 1667. Selected Poems, edited with an appreciation by See also:Miss L. I. Guiney, appeared in 1904; but the best See also:modern edition is in See also:Saintsbury's See also:Minor Poets of the See also:Caroline See also:Period (Val., 1905).

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