Ethel Marie Armes was born in
Washington, D.C., to Col.
George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr (daughter of
John Bozman Kerr), Armes was raised in Washington, D.C., where she attended private schools. She worked as a reporter for the
Chicago Chronicle in 1899 and then
The Washington Post during 1900–1903. In 1904 she became engaged to the Japanese poet
Yone Noguchi and planned to join him in Japan, but broke off the engagement after learning that, during their engagement, he had been sexually involved with another woman,
Léonie Gilmour, who had borne his child (future artist
Isamu Noguchi). She never married, but in 1925 she adopted a ten year old girl, Catherine, to whom she had been a foster parent. Her daughter married Richard W. Millar, and had two children. == Selected works ==