Background
She was born Kate Nichols in Brooklyn, New York to George Little Nichols and Christina Mary Cole. Her father was a partner in a large importing firm.
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She was born Kate Nichols in Brooklyn, New York to George Little Nichols and Christina Mary Cole. Her father was a partner in a large importing firm.
Her husband was a director of several railroads and the president of the Edison Illuminating Company of New New York He also helped plan and finance the reorganization of the New York Times in 1896. Katrina was the mother of four children, all of whom died in infancy or childhood.
Spencer was killed in a railroad accident in 1909.
In 1913 Katrina suffered several heart attacks and spent much of the remainder of her life developing and financing Yaddo, an artists" community in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she was an invalid. Katrina died less than a year later in 1922.
In 1878 she wrote Colorado Leaves, and in 1888 the Chronicles of Yaddo. Her first book, Under King Constantine, was published anonymously in 1892.
The book contains three long love poems and was written in three days under intense mental strain.
lieutenant went through five editions and beginning with the second edition she started identifying herself as Katrina Trask. In 1908 she wrote King Alfred’s Jewel, a historical drama also in blank verse. As an avid pacifist she wrote an antiwar play, In the Vanguard which appeared a year before World War I and went through eight editions and was performed by women clubs and church groups.
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