Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 - March 28, 1929) is an American songwriter. He is remembered as the author of the words for the song "America the Beautiful". He popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through his poetry of Goody Santa Claus at Sleigh Ride (1889).
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Life and career
Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of the congregation pastor William Bates and his wife, Cornelia Frances Lee. He graduated from Needham High School in 1872, from Newton High School in 1875, and from Wellesley College with B.A. in 1880. He taught at Natick High School during 1880-81 and at Dana Hall School from 1885 to 1889. He returned to Wellesley as an instructor, then a professor of 1891-93 when he was awarded the MA title and became an English professor full of literature. He studied at the University of Oxford during 1890-91. While teaching at Wellesley, he was selected as a member of the newly formed Pi Gamma Mu honor community for social science because of his interest in history and politics.
Bates is a prolific writer of many volumes of poetry, travel books, and children's books. She popularized Mrs. Claus in his poem Goody Santa Claus on Ride Sleigh from the Sunshine Collection and Other Verses for Children (1889).
She contributes regularly to magazines, sometimes with the nickname of James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly , Congregationalists , Boston Evening Transcript , -Christens , Contemporary Verses , Lippincott and Delineator .
Lifetime, the Republic is active, Bates broke with the party to support Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations. He said: "Despite being born and raised in the Republican camp, I can not resist their betrayal against Mr. Wilson and their rejection of the League of Nations, the only hope of peace on earth."
Bates never married. In 1910, when a colleague described the "wild virgin who flew freely" as "the outskirts of the clothing of life," Bates replied: "I always think of the fringes of having the best I do not think I object to not being woven."
Bates died in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1929, and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Falmouth.
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Relationship with Katharine Coman
Bates lives in Wellesley with Katharine Coman, who is a history and political economics teacher and founder of the Wellesley High School economy department. The couple lived together for twenty-five years until Coman's death in 1915. In 1922, Bates published Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance, a collection of poems written "to or about my friend" Katharine Coman, some of which have been published in Coman's lifetime.
Some describe the couple as an intimate lesbian partner, citing as an example of Bates' 1891 letter to Coman: "It was never quite possible to leave Wellesley [for good], because so much love-anchors held me there, and it seemed all possible when I was new just find the desired long way into your dear heart... Of course I want to come to you, just as I want to come to Heaven. "Other contests use the term lesbian to describe as" Boston marriage ". Writing one: "We can not say for certain what the sexual connotations of this relationship are delivered.We know that this relationship is very intellectual; they foster a verbal and physical expression of love."
"America the Beautiful"
The first draft of "America the Beautiful" was rushed in a notebook during the summer of 1893, which Bates spent to teach English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Then he remembered:
One day, several other teachers and I decided to travel to Pikes Peak at 14,000 feet. We rented a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and continue on to the mule. I am very tired. But when I look at the scene, I feel very happy. All the American miracles seem to be displayed there, with a sea-like expanse.
Words for his only famous poem first appeared in print in The Congregationalist, a weekly journal, for Independence Day, 1895. The poem reached a wider audience when its revised version was printed at Boston Evening Transcript on November 19, 1904. The final expanded version was written in 1913. When a version appeared in his collection of America the Beautiful, and Other Poems (1912), a reviewer in the New York Times wrote: "we did not mean to patronize Miss Katharine Lee Bates when we said she was a good little poet."
The song has been sung for several songs, but the familiar ones are by Samuel A. Ward (1847-1903), written for his song "Materna" (1882).
Awards
The Bates family house on Falmouth's Main Street is preserved by the Falmouth Historical Society. There is also a street named in his honor, "Katharine Lee Bates Road" in Falmouth. A plaque marks the site where he lived as an adult at Center Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The historic home and birthplace of Bates in Falmouth, sold to Ruth P. Clark in November 2013 for $ 1,200,000.
Katharine Lee Bates Elementary School at Elmwood Road in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Katharine Lee Bates Primary School, founded in 1957 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Bates Hall at Wellesley College are named for her.
The Katharine Lee Bates Professorship was founded in Wellesley shortly after his death.
Bates was elected into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
The collection of Bates manuscripts is stored in the Library of Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College; Falmouth Historical Society; Houghton Library, Harvard University; Wellesley University Archive.
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Further reading
- Dorothy Burgess, Dream and Act: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952) "Catherine Lee Bates" at Leading American Women: Modern Period, Biography Dictionary , edited by Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green with Ilene Kantrov, Harriette Walker (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980)
- Celebrities Almanac , the sixth edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998.
- Literature Biography Dictionary , Volume 71: American Literature and Bachelor of Literature, 1880-1900, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1988.
- The World Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 2, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998.
- Gay and Lesbian Literature , St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998.
- Vida Dutton Scudder, On Trip , E.P. Dutton (New York, NY), 1937.
- Drury, Michael, "Why He's Wrote America's Favorite Song," Reader's Digest , July 1993, p. 90-93.
- Price, Deb. The Bellingham Herald , July 4, 1998: "Two women's love made 'America' Beautiful".
- Christian Science Monitor , July 19, 1930.
- Dial , January 16, 1912.
- International Book Review , June 24, 1924.
- Nation , November 30, 1918.
- New York Times , July 14, 1918; August 17, 1930.
External links
- Lee Bates Katharine Lee Bates in Songwriters Hall of Fame
- The Origin of American Christmas Myths and Customs
- "The Katharine Lee Bates Shrine!". Archived from original on June 13, 2006 . Earned 2009-02-16 . Ã, (Sites devoted to Miss Bates and Falmouth, Massachusetts)
- Falmouth Museum in Green
- Works by Katharine Lee Bates at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Katharine Lee Bates in Internet Archive
- Works by Katharine Lee Bates in LibriVox (public domain audiobook)
- Bates Biography and Poetry, part of the Biographics of the poet.
- Katharine Lee Bates at the Library of Congress Authorities, with 80 catalog notes
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