Ethel Marie Armes was an American journalist and historian.

Daughter of Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr, the daughter of John Bozman Kerr

John Bozman Kerr

John Bozman Kerr was a U.S. Congressman, representing the sixth district of the state of Maryland from 1849 until 1851....

, Ethel was brought up in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 where she attended private schools and later worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. In 1904 she became engaged to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi

Yone Noguchi

Yone Noguchi, or Yonejirō Noguchi, born 野口 米次郎 / Noguchi Yonejirō , was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.-Early life:Noguchi was born in the town of Tsushima, near Nagoya...

and planned to join him in Japan, but broke off the engagement under scandalous circumstances. She continued to write for newspapers and authored a number of important historical works.

Works

• Midsummer in Whittier's country (1905)
• The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama (1910)
• Stratford on the Potomac (1928)
• Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees (1936)