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- ANASTASIA VENETIA STANLEY, LADY DIGBY
- THE COUNTESS OF DESMOND
- ELIZABETH CROMWELL AND HER DAUGHTERS
- MRS. LUCY HUTCHINSON
- FRANCES STUART, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
- DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUNDERLAND
- ELIZABETH PERCY, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET
- LADY RACHEL RUSSELL
- MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
- ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA
- MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS
- JANE LANE
- ANNE KILLIGREW
- FRANCES JENNINGS, DUCHESS OF TYRCONNEL
- MARY BEALE
- ANNE CLARGES, DUCHESS OF ALBEMARLE
- LADY MARY TUDOR
- ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORK
- ANNE SCOTT, DUCHESS OF MONMOUTH
- STELLA AND VANESSA
- SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
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MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ANASTASIA VENETIA STANLEY, LADY DIGBY
- THE COUNTESS OF DESMOND
- ELIZABETH CROMWELL AND HER DAUGHTERS
- MRS. LUCY HUTCHINSON
- FRANCES STUART, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
- DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUNDERLAND
- ELIZABETH PERCY, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET
- LADY RACHEL RUSSELL
- MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
- ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA
- MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS
- JANE LANE
- ANNE KILLIGREW
- FRANCES JENNINGS, DUCHESS OF TYRCONNEL
- MARY BEALE
- ANNE CLARGES, DUCHESS OF ALBEMARLE
- LADY MARY TUDOR
- ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORK
- ANNE SCOTT, DUCHESS OF MONMOUTH
- STELLA AND VANESSA
- SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
- Plate section
Summary
This lady was in her time so celebrated a personage, that, whatever her real merits were, she requires some notice, as she attracted that of many of the most remarkable writers at the period at which she lived. Cowley celebrates her in flowing numbers, and in his ode on her death exclaims, in reference to her fame:—
“ Cruel disease! there thou mistook'st thy power,
No mine of death can that devour :
On her embalmed name it will abide
An everlasting pyramide
As high as heaven the top, as earth the basis wide.
Of female poets who had names of old,
Nothing is shewn, but only told,
And all we hear of them perhaps may be,
Male flattery only and male poetry,
Few minutes did their beauty's lightning waste,
The thunder of their voice did longer last,
But that too soon was past.
The certain proofs of our Orinda's wit
In her own lasting characters are writ,
And they will long my praise of them survive,
Tho' long perhaps too that may live.
Orinda in the female coasts of fame
Engrosses all the goods of a poetic name,
She does no partner with her see:
Does all the business there that we
Are forced to carry on by a whole company. […]
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- Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen , pp. 239 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844