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Bates (KATHARINE LEE American story)

KATHARINE LEE, American story writer, poet, and educator, born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; was called to the chair of English Literature in Wellesley College in 1891; edited collections of ballads, etc.; and wrote juvenile stories, including "Rose and Thorn" (1889); "The English Religious Drama" (1893); "The College Beautiful and Other Poems" (1887); "History of American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and Byways" (1900); "Gretna Green to Land's End" (1907); "America the Beautiful" (1911); etc.