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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. Hale was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874, to James Warnock and Katherine Hale Byard Warnock. She was educated in Galt, Ontario before traveling to New York…
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. Hale was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874, to James Warnock and Katherine Hale Byard Warnock. She was educated in Galt, Ontario before traveling to New York…
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. Hale was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874, to James Warnock and Katherine Hale Byard Warnock. She was educated in Galt, Ontario before traveling to New York…
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. Hale was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874, to James Warnock and Katherine Hale Byard Warnock. She was educated in Galt, Ontario before traveling to New York…
Ethelwyn Wetherald 26 April 1857 – 9 March 1940 Ethelwyn was born of English Quaker parents at Rockwood, Ontario, on April 26, 1857. She was one of eleven children of Jemima Harris Balls and William Wetherald (founder/principal Rockwood Academy and later Quaker minister). Her family then made the move to Pennsylvania where her father William…
Flaming Youth by Samuel Hopkins Adams Flaming Youth is a 1923 book, controversial in its time, by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The novel was adapted into the silent movie Flaming Youth in 1923. In his retrospective essay “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald argued that Adams’ novel persuaded certain moralistic Americans that their…
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949) Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 “in appreciation of his many-sided…
Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as ‘Resistance to Civil Government’), an argument for…
Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as Resistance to Civil Government), an argument for disobedience…
Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience (originally published as Resistance to Civil Government), an argument for disobedience…