mini|hochkant|Katharine Lee Bates Katharine Lee Bates (* 12. August 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts; † 28. März 1929 in Wellesley, Massachusetts) war eine US-amerikanische Lehrerin, Dichterin und Autorin. Lee Bates war die Dichterin der Hymne America the Beautiful.

Leben Bates besuchte bis 1874 die Wellesley High School und studierte dann bis 1880 am Wellesley College. Sie unterrichtete von 1880 bis 1881 an der Natick High School und danach von 1885 bis 1889 an der Dana Hall School. Ab 1893 war sie als Hochschullehrerin für englischsprachige Literatur am Wellesley College tätig. Als Autorin verfasste sie Gedichte, Reiseliteratur und Kinderbücher. Ihre Werke veröffentlichte sie – teilweise unter dem Pseudonym James Lincoln – in verschiedenen Publikationen wie Atlantic Monthly, The Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott’s und Delineator. Als langjährige Republikanerin erklärte sie 1924 öffentlich, den demokratischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten John W. Davis zu wählen, da die Republikaner sich gegen die Mitgliedschaft der USA im Völkerbund aussprachen.New York Times: REPUBLICAN WOMEN DECLARE FOR DAVIS; Seven New Yorkers and Prof. Bates of Wellesley State Their Views. In Wellesley lebte und wohnte Bates mit ihrer Lebensgefährtin, der Geschichtslehrerin Katharine Coman, zusammen. Bates verstarb 1929 in Wellesley, wo sie auf dem Oak Grove Cemetery beerdigt wurde.

Werke (Auswahl) Autorin The College Beautiful, and Other Poems, Houghton (Cambridge, MA), 1887 Rose and Thorn, Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society (Boston, MA), 1889 Hermit Island, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1890 Sunshine, and Other Verses for Children, Wellesley Alumnae (Boston, MA), 1890 The English Religious Drama, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1893, Wiederauflage, Kennikat Press (Port Washington, NY), 1966 American Literature, Chautauqua Press (New York, NY), 1897 Spanish Highways and Byways, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1900 (als James Lincoln:) Relishes of Rhyme, Richard G. Badger (Boston, MA), 1903 From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England, fotografiert von Katharine Coman, Crowell (New York, NY), 1907 The Story of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1909 America the Beautiful, and Other Poems, Crowell (New York, NY), 1911 In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael, Dutton (New York, NY), 1913 Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, Katharine Lee Bates, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1914 Fairy Gold, Dutton, (New York, NY), 1916 The Retinue, and Other Poems, Dutton (New York, NY), 1918 Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road, Dutton (New York, NY), 1919 Yellow Clover, A Book of Remembrance, Dutton (New York, NY), 1922 Little Robin Stay-Behind, and Other Plays in Verse for Children, Woman's Press (New York, NY), 1923 The Pilgrim Ship, Woman's Press (New York, NY), 1926 America the Dream, Crowell (New York, NY), 1930 An Autobiography, in Brief, of Katharine Lee Bates, Enterprise Press (Falmouth, MA), 1930 Selected Poems of Katharine Lee Bates, ediert von Marion Pelton Guild, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1930

Herausgeberin The Wedding Day Book, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1882, published as The Wedding-Day Book, with the Congratulations of the Poets, Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1895 Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner|Ancient Mariner, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1889 Ballad Book, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1890, Wiederauflage, Books for Libraries Press (Freeport, NY), 1969 Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1894 Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1895 Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like It, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1896 Stories from the Chap-Book, Stone (Chicago, IL), 1896 Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, Silver, Burdett, (New York, NY), 1902 The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 14. Ausgabe, Crowell (New York, NY), 1902 Hamilton Wright Mabie, Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas, Rand, McNally, Chicago, 1902 The Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary, Crowell (New York, NY), 1903 John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria, illustriert von John C. Johansen, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1903 Tennyson's The Princess, American Book Co. (New York, NY), 1904 Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur, Sibley (Boston, MA), 1905 The New Irish Drama, Drama League of America (Chicago, IL), 1911 Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and the Faire Maide of the West, Heath (Boston, MA), 1917 Once Upon a Time; A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustriert von Margaret Evans Price, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1921 Tom Thumb and Other Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustriert von Price, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1926 Jack the Giant-Killer, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1937 Jack and the Beanstalk; also Toads and Diamonds, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1937

Übersetzerin Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Romantic Legends of Spain, Crowell (New York). gemeinsam mit Cornelia Frances Bates

Literatur Dorothy Burgess, Dream and Deed: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952) „Katharine Lee Bates“, in: Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary, ediert von Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green with Ilene Kantrov, Harriette Walker (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980) Almanac of Famous People, 6. Ausgabe, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998 Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 71: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880–1900, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1988. Encyclopedia of World Biography, Zweite Ausgabe, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998 Gay and Lesbian Literature, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998 Vida Dutton Scudder, On Journey, E.P. Dutton (New York, NY), 1937 Michael Drury, „Why She Wrote America's Favorite Song,“ Reader’s Digest, Juli 1993, S. 90–93 Deb. Price, The Bellingham Herald, 4. Juli 1998: „Two women's love made 'America' Beautiful“

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