Katherine Philips
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, who wrote during the mid seventeenth century, may herself have valued her public more highly than her private ones. But she won lasting importance as a poet of passionate female friendship and as realising new possibilites in translation and drama. She was an acceptable role-model and an active inspiration and enabler for women writers of several generations, before her rediscovery in the twentieth century as an inspiration for women loving women.
- BirthName: Katherine Fowler
- Married: Philips
- Pseudonyms: Orinda; The Incomparable Mrs K. P.This was often rendered as the Matchless Orinda.