Katherine Hale

Katherine Hale (1878-1956), real name Amelia Beers Warnock, was a Canadian poet, critic, and short story writer. She was married to the publisher and teacher John William Garvin.

Hale was educated in Galt, Ontario before traveling to New York and Europe to train as a singer. Already an active journalist, musician, lecturer, and critic, Hale gained popular notoriety for her war poetry during the First World War. Her first book of poetry, Grey Knitting and Other Poems ran into four editions of a thousand each, before it had been on the market for six weeks.

Selected works

• Hale, Katherine: Grey Knitting, and Other Poems, Toronto: Briggs, 1914
• Hale, Katherine: The White Comrade, and Other Poems Toronto: McClelland, 1916
• Hale, Katherine: The Island, and Other Poems Toronto: Mundy-Goodfellow, 1934

References

• Entry for Katharine Hale in John William Garvin's Canadian Poets from 1916.
• Katherine Hale by Wanda Campbell from the Canadian Poetry Press.