The daughter of Sarah Frances DeWolfe and Henry Pryor Almon, an Anglican minister, she was born
Sophie Margaretta Almon in
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. She was first educated at home by her governesses and then continued her education in England and
Paris. She returned to
Windsor, Nova Scotia, where she was a protégée of
Charles G. D. Roberts. She contributed to publications such as
The Dominion illustrated monthly,
The Current, ''The King's College Record
. The Dalhousie Review and The Week. In 1889, she published her first poetry collection Poems
. In the same year, she married Hubert Arthur Hensley, a barrister; the couple moved to New York City the following year. In 1895, she published her second collection of poems A Woman's Love Letters
. She went on to write several other collections of poetry, a novelette and a musical play (with her husband). In 1913, she published Love and the Woman of Tomorrow'', a feminist essay. In 1937, she moved to
Jersey but was forced to leave when
the Germans occupied the Channel Islands in 1940 and she returned to Windsor, Nova Scotia. She died of heart failure at the Annapolis General Hospital in Windsor at the age of 79. ==Selected publications==