Introduction

Biography

Katharine was the daugh­ter of cler­gy­man Will­iam Bates and Cor­ne­lia Fran­ces Lee.

She at­tend­ed Well­es­ley Col­lege, then taught at Na­tick High School and Da­na Hall in Well­es­ley.

In 1885, she joined the fa­cul­ty of Well­es­ley Col­lege as an Eng­lish in­struct­or, be­com­ing a full pro­fess­or in 1891.

She re­tired in 1925 and be­came a Pro­fess­or Eme­ri­tus.

Works

• The Col­lege Beau­ti­ful, and Oth­er Po­ems (Cam­bridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts: H.O. Hough­ton, print­er, 1887)
• Coleridge’s An­cient Ma­rin­er (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Leach, Shewell & Sanborn: 1889)
• The Eng­lish Re­li­gious Dra­ma (New York & Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1893)
• English Drama. A Work­ing Bas­is (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts, S. G. Robinson, 1896)
• American Li­ter­ature (New York & Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1898)
• Ballad Book (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Leach, Shew­ell & San­born, 1890)
• Sunshine, and Oth­er Vers­es for Child­ren (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Print­ed by the Wel­les­ley alum­nae for the be­ne­fit of the No­rum­be­ga fund, 1890)
• Hermit Is­land (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: D. Lothrop, 1890)
• Shakespeare’s Co­me­dy of A Mid­sum­mer-Night’s Dream (New York & Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Leach, Shew­ell & San­born, 1895)
• Stories from the Chap-Book (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Her­bert S. Stone, 1896)
• Shakespeare’s Co­me­dy of As You Like It Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Leach, Shew­ell & San­born, 1896)
• Spanish High­ways and By­ways (New York & Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1900)
• From Gret­na Green to Land’s End (Lon­don: Grant Ri­chards, 1908)
• America the Beau­ti­ful, and Oth­er Poe­ms (New York: Tho­mas Y. Crow­ell, 1911)
• In Sun­ny Spain with Pi­la­ri­ca and Ra­fa­el (Lon­don: Dent, 1913)
• Shakespeare; Se­lect­ive Bib­lio­gra­phy and Bio­gra­phi­cal Notes (Wel­les­ley, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Well­es­ley Col­lege, 1913)
• Fairy Gold (New York: E.P. Dut­ton, 1916)
• The Re­ti­nue, and Oth­er Po­ems (New York: E.P. Dut­ton, 1918)
• Sigurd Our Gold­en Coll­ie, and Oth­er Com­rades of the Road (New York: E.P. Dut­ton, 1918)
• Yellow Clo­ver (New York: E.P. Dut­ton, 1922)
• An Au­to­bio­gra­phy, in Brief, of Ka­tha­rine Lee Bates (Fal­mouth, Mas­sa­chu­setts: En­ter­prise Press, 1930)