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[[File:Katherine Philips.jpg|thumb|Katherine Philips]]'''Katherine Philips''' (1632–1664) was an Anglo-Welsh poet.

She created a "Society of Friendship" based at her home in [[Cardigan]], in which she was known as "Orinda", and her poems celebrate the refined pleasures of platonic love.
it has been argued that her poems are lesbian in nature<ref>Harriette Andreadis, "The Sapphic-Platonics of Katherine Philips, 1632-1664", <cite>Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society</cite>, 1989. Volume 15, number 1, page 59.</ref> but this view is not universally accepted.

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