Emily Katharine Bates (1846–1922) was a British spiritualist author, travel writer, and novelist.
Emily Katharine Bates | |
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| Born | 1846  Dover |
| Died | 13 February 1922 (aged 75–76) Bournemouth |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Emily Katharine Bates was born in 1846 in Dover, England, the youngest child of the Anglican Reverend John Ellison Bates and Ellen-Susan Carleton. She was orphaned at age nine. Her brother Charles Ellison Bates was injured in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878 and she took charge of his care.[1][2]
In 1885 and 1886, Bates travelled through the United States and Canada, resulting in the book A Year in the Great Republic (1887). In her book, she wrote candidly about the difficulties of railroad and stagecoach travel: delays, poor food and lodging, train and stage accidents, labor conditions, and injuries and deaths of tourists.[2]
In the United States, she attended her first séance. She grew more active in spiritualism and while she continued to write travel books, her writing increasingly focused on spiritualism.[2] She joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1891.[3]
Bates died in Bournemouth, England on 13 February 1922.[4]
Bibliography
edit- Egyptian Bonds: A Novel. 2 vol. London: Bentley, 1879.[1]
- A Year in the Great Republic. 1887.[1]
- Kaleidoscope: Shifting Scenes from East to West. 1889.[5]
- George Vyvian: A Novel. 2 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1890.[1]
- Seen and Unseen: Record of Physic Experiences. 1907.[1]
- Do the Dead Depart? And Other Questions. 1908.[6]
- Psychical Science and Christianity: A Problem of the Twentieth Century. 1909.[6]
- The Coping Stone. 1912.[7]
- Psychic Hints of a Former Life. 1912.[6]
- The Boomerang: A Novel. 1914.[7]
- Our Living Dead: Some Talks with Unknown Friends. 1917.[6]
- Children of the Dawn. 1920.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Author: Emily Katharine Bates". At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Stephanie (February 2010). "Emily Katharine Bates and the suppression of travail in late nineteenth-century travel writing about the United States". Studies in Travel Writing. 14 (1): 29–42. doi:10.1080/13645140903465001. ISSN 1364-5145. S2CID 162309534.
- ^ The Golden Dawn companion : a guide to the history, structure, and workings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. R. A. Gilbert. Wellingborough: Aquarian. 1986. ISBN 0-85030-436-9. OCLC 60016501.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Miss E. Katharine Bates". Light: A Journal of Spiritual Progress & Psychical Research: 655. 13 October 1922.
- ^ Smith, Charles W. (Charles Wesley); University of Washington. Libraries; Washington State Library (1909). Check-list of books and pamphlets relating to the history of the Pacific Northwest to be found in representative libraries of that region; prepared co-operatively. University of California Libraries. Olympia, Wash., E. L. Boardman, public printer.
- ^ a b c d Baker, William (17 November 2021). Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from The Era of Imperial Consolidation 1835–1910 (1 ed.). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003113447-15. ISBN 978-1-003-11344-7. S2CID 244374269.
- ^ a b c Robinson, Doris (1984). Women novelists, 1891–1920 : an index to biographical and autobiographical sources. New York: Garland. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8240-8977-1.