Emily Katharine Bates was the author of: Egyptian Bonds: A Novel (1879), A Year in the Great Republic (2 volumes) (1887), Kaleidoscope: Shifting Scenes from East to West (1889), George Vyvian: A Novel (1890) Seen and Unseen (1908), Do the Dead Depart? and Other Questions (1908), Psychical Science and Christianity: A Problem of the XXth Century (1909), Psychic Hints of a Former Life (1912), The Boomerang: A Novel (1914), Our Living Dead (1917) and Children of the Dawn (1920).