At the end of her piece on the lesbian subtext (if it’s even subtext) of Katherine Philips’ poetry, Traub defines her “innocence” as a sort of chaste feminine love, rather than a denial of her sexual leanings or any other previous interpretation by other scholars. Is this “innocence” a sort of female-female version of the “married chastity” that Britomart and Queen Elizabeth were said to represent, or is it too different in other ways to make that comparison?