Katherine Little Bakeless (1895–1992)
Author of Spies of the Revolution
About the Author
Image credit: Bloomsburg University
Works by Katherine Little Bakeless
The Birth of a Nation's Song 3 copies
In the big time 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1895-12-05
- Date of death
- 1992-07-29
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Place of death
- Seymour, Connecticut, USA
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Bloomsburg State Normal School
Peabody Conservatory of Music - Occupations
- biographer
music teacher
author - Relationships
- Bakeless, John (husband)
- Short biography
- Katherine Little Bakeless was born in Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School. She
studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, and also received private instruction
in London and Salzburg. She taught piano in private schools in New York and New
Jersey, and in her New York City studio. In 1920, she married John Bakeless and the two collaborated on numerous books about composers and music. Katherine also wrote two books for young readers independently.
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From vintage scholastic cover: A strange message in code! Messages in silver bullets and jacket buttons! Letters written in invisible ink. All across revolutionary America, spies for the patriots and the redcoats are stealing through enemy lines, getting vital information. Who are these spies? No one can be sure. Who would suspect the schoolmaster, or a fourteen-year-old boy, a Quaker housewife, a Yankee farmer, a Boston surgeon? Yet each one is risking his life on a secret mission that may change history. This book is based on John Blakely's book, "Turncoats, Traitors, and Heroes," published in 1959. Spelling and punctuation from the 18th century has been modernized in this book. Writers concentrated on the relatively unknown information and passed on info readily found in other books. For example, there's no mention of Benedict Arnold.… (more)
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- Works
- 10
- Members
- 315
- Popularity
- #74,965
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 7
Recommended for those who want an introduction to the men who founded our country. Particular emphasis is placed on the native flora and fauna of the period as well as descriptions of the land.
Personally, for those interested in similar overviews, I recommend The Discoverers of America by Harold Faber.… (more)