Katherine Philips

Katherine Philips, known as The Matchless Orinda, was a writer active in the mid-1600s. She was a royalist, translator and is well-regarded for her poetry. Later poets, like John Keats, cited Philips as an influential source of work. Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda was published after her death.

‘Dialogue of Friendship Multiply’d’ by Katherine Philips contains the dialogue between two women, one of whom wishes to begin a friendship with the other.

A Married State

by Katherine Philips

Dialogue of Friendship Multiply’d

by Katherine Philips

Orinda to Lucasia

by Katherine Philips

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship

by Katherine Philips