Katherine Hale

Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin (13 August 1874 – 7 September 1956), who wrote under the pen name Katherine Hale, was a Canadian poet, critic, and short story writer. She was married to the publisher and teacher John William Garvin.

Hale was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874,[1] to James Warnock and Katherine Hale Byard Warnock. She 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.

In 1912, she married John William Garvin.[2] She died in 1956.[3]

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

Ontario, Canada Births, 1858–1913
Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826–1937
Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists. University of Toronto Press. 1971. p. 2102. ISBN 978-1-4426-3783-2. Retrieved 22 December 2019.

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

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[1] Ontario, Canada Births, 1858–1913

[2] Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826–1937

[3] Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists. University of Toronto Press. 1971. p. 2102. ISBN 978-1-4426-3783-2. Retrieved 22 December 2019.