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Biography
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, toJames 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. She died in 1956.
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