Emily Katharine Bates
British spiritualist, travel writer, and novelist
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Emily Katharine Bates (1846–1922) was a British spiritualist author, travel writer, and novelist.
Emily Katharine Bates | |
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| Born | 1846  |
| Died | 13 February 1922 (aged 75–76) |
| 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
- 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]