By the Roadside
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About the author
Katherine M. Yates (1865–?) was an American writer and teacher. One work by her is held in this collection, By the Roadside. Public information about her life and writing is limited, and even the year of her death is incomplete in the available records; only her birth in 1865 can be confirmed. What is known suggests that her writing went together with her work as a teacher. Her subjects stay close to everyday and local scenes, and her style is plain and observant rather than grand in theme. The title By the Roadside itself points to material drawn from roadside sights and ordinary life, in keeping with the local writing common in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such works were usually aimed at general readers, especially young people, and served both as literature and as general knowledge. Because surviving material is scarce, her influence is seen mainly in the inclusion and circulation of her work, and no more detailed assessment is possible.
