Almon, Sophie Margaretta (Hensley)

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Margaretta_Almon_Hensley
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Sophie Margaretta Almon Hensley (May 31, 1866 – February 10, 1946) was a Canadian writer and educator. She also published under the names Gordon Hart, J. Try-Davies and Almon Hensley.
    • Hensley and her husband had two daughters and a son.
    • She lectured on literary topics. Hensley was also secretary of the New York State Assembly of Mothers, founder and vice-president of the New York City Mother’s Club and founding president of the Society for the Study of Life. She was an associate editor of Health: A Home Magazine Devoted to Physical Culture and Hygiene and a member of the New York Press Club
    • 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.
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