SOURCE: "A Feminist Link in the Old Boys' Network: The Cosseting of Katherine Philips," in Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660–1820, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecelia Macheski, Ohio University Press, 1991, pp. 71–104.
In the following excerpt, Mulvihill traces the development of Philips's career in the context of the "Orinda" myth and the "old boys' network" that contributed to her popular success.
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