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