Emily Katharine Bates

Emily Katharine Bates
Born1846
Dover, England
Died (aged 75)
Bournemouth, England
Occupations

Emily Katharine Bates (1846 – 13 February 1922) was an English spiritualist author, travel writer, and novelist.

Biography

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 about the difficulties of railroad and stagecoach travel: delays, poor food and lodging, train and stage accidents, labour 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, on 13 February 1922, aged 75.[4][5]

Bibliography

  • 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.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • Psychical Science and Christianity: A Problem of the Twentieth Century. 1909.[7]
  • The Coping Stone. 1912.[8]
  • Psychic Hints of a Former Life. 1912.[7]
  • The Boomerang: A Novel. 1914.[8]
  • Our Living Dead: Some Talks with Unknown Friends. 1917.[7]
  • Children of the Dawn. 1920.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Author: Emily Katharine Bates". At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. ↑ Gilbert, R. A. (1986). The Golden Dawn Companion: A Guide to the History, Structure, and Workings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Wellingborough: Aquarian. ISBN 0-85030-436-9. OCLC 60016501.
  4. ↑ "Miss E. Katharine Bates". Light: A Journal of Spiritual Progress & Psychical Research: 655. 13 October 1922.
  5. ↑ "Deaths Mar 1922: Bates, Emily K." FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. 1 2 3 4 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.
  8. 1 2 3 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.
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