The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bates, Katharine Lee

​BATES, Katharine Lee, author, was born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; daughter of the Rev. William and Cornelia Frances (Lee) Bates, granddaughter of the Rev, Joshua Bates, D.D., president of Middlebury college, Vermont. She was graduated at Wellesley in 1880; taught mathematics. classics and English at the high school, Natick, Mass., 1880-'81; Latin at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., 1881-'85; was an instructor and associate professor in English literature at Wellesley college 1885-'91, and professor of English there from 1891. She is the author of "Rose and Thorn" (1890); "Hermit Island" (1890); "Religious Drama" (1893); "American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and By Ways" (1900), of contributions to magazines and of editions of several of Shakespeare's plays and other English classics.

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