PHILIPS, KATHERINE

PHILIPS, KATHERINE
   poetess, born in London; was the daughter of a London merchant and the wife of a Welsh squire, a highly sentimental but worthy woman; the Society of Friendship, in which the members bore fancy names - hers, which also served her for a nom de plume, was Orinda - had some fame in its day, and brought her, as the foundress, the honour of a dedication from Jeremy Taylor; her work was admired by Cowley and Keats; she was a staunch royalist (1631-1664).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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