Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was an American poet, writer, university teacher, songwriter, lyricist and literary scholar (1863–1929). She was born at Falmouth and died at Wellesley.
Katharine Lee Bates in brief
- Born
- 1863
- Died
- 1929
- Known for
- poet, writer, university teacher, songwriter, lyricist and literary scholar
- Place of birth
- Falmouth
Contents
Catalogued works
36 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1809 to 2007.
Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride. O Beautiful for Spacious Skies. An autobiography in brief of Katharine Lee Bates. Spanish highways and byways. Our old home. Christmas before and after. [Facsimile holograph of Katherine Lee Bates' "America the beautiful."]. The retinue and other poems. Shakespeare's comedy of As you like it. America the beautiful, dated 1911. Sunshine. Ballad book. The Wedding-day book. Stories from the Chap-book. English literature. Hours in dreamland with the modern English poets. The Debt ... American Literature. Rose and Thorn. Old-time fairy tales. Discover America. America the Beautiful with 4 Paperbacks. Fairy Gold: Poems, dated 1916. The English Religious Drama, dated 2006. A Childs Book Of Myths. Fairy Gold, dated 2007. From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England, dated 1907. My America, The Beautiful. Once upon a time. Romantic legends of Spain. America the Beautiful with Other and 4 Paperbacks. In Sunny Spain with Pilarcia and Rafael. Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road. Child Lore, Its Classics, Traditions and Jingles, dated 1886, illustrations: commercial process, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 35.95.1. Autumn River Scene, The Brook, dated 1889, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1986.1280. John Hodgkin junior (1800-1875), dated 1809-1976, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 3 named public collections.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929), educator and writer, American National Biography Online, 2000. "Yellow Clover": Katharine Lee Bates and Katharine Coman, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1979. Dream and Deed. The Story of Katharine Lee Bates, Books Abroad, 1953. Katharine Lee Bates, Poet-Teacher, The English Journal, 1931. Katharine Lee Bates and Chaucer's American Children, The Chaucer Review, 2021.
Digitised editions and texts
13 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.
Folk-ballads of Southern Europe (1913) — Internet Archive. In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael — Internet Archive. Hours in Dreamland with the Modern English Poets (1897) — Internet Archive. America the Beautiful: And Other Poems (1911) — Internet Archive. The English Religious Drama (1913) — Internet Archive. Tennyson's The Princess (1904) — Internet Archive. the works of nathaniel hawthorne the snow image, the blithedale romance (1902) — Internet Archive. Ballad Book (1939) — Internet Archive. A Woman Killed with Kindness: And The Fair Maid of the West (1917) — Internet Archive. From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. — Internet Archive. Blood Road (2019) — Internet Archive. Spanish Highways and Byways — Project Gutenberg. Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road — Project Gutenberg.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 21 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Katharine Lee Bates studied at Wellesley College, Newton North High School and Wellesley High School. the recorded working language is English.
The field of work recorded is American poetry.
Employment is recorded with Wellesley College.
Works named in the authority record are America the Beautiful and Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride.
Chronology
- 1863Katharine Lee Bates born at Falmouth.
- 1897Hours in Dreamland with the Modern English Poets digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1904Tennyson's The Princess digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1911America the Beautiful: And Other Poems digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1913Folk-ballads of Southern Europe digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1913The English Religious Drama digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1929Katharine Lee Bates died at Wellesley.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Katharine Lee Bates”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q2363035: Katharine Lee Bates
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Elsewhere in Books
15,964 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
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