Amelia Beers Warnock was born in
Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874. Her father, James Warnock, was a Scottish industrialist, and her mother, Katherine Hale Byard, was from
Mobile, Alabama and a relation of
Edward Everett Hale. She attended school in
Galt, Ontario, including
Galt Collegiate Institute, where she performed in operettas. Her work was well received and resulted in a position as Editor of Contemporary Literature with the Toronto newspaper
The Mail and Empire. 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. She was married publisher and teacher
John William Garvin, of Toronto, in 1912. She died in 1956. ==Works==