biography
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Philips, Katherine
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also known by her maiden name Katherine Fowler
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1631–64)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in London, UK. The first English woman poet to have her work published, she organized a salon for the discussion of poetry and religion. She became known by the admiring title ‘Matchless Orinda’, and was made the subject of several verses. Her own work includes verses prefixed to Vaughan's Poems (1651), a translation of Corneille's Pompée (performed in Dublin in 1663), and a posthumous collection of verses (1667). |
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