[2] She is best known as a children's author of such books as Bushland stories (1910) and Scribbling Sue (1914) and others, as well as a journalist and an editor of Sydney Morning Herald.

Hans Hamilton Mack was a Wesleyan minister from Downpatrick, Ireland, and her mother Jemima, née James, was from Armagh.

[4] Amy Eleanor Mack died of arteriosclerosis on 4 November 1939 in St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney and was cremated with Presbyterian forms.

[2] In 1909 Mack published her first book, A Bush Calendar, that consisted of her nature articles that previously appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald.

[6] These stories were adopted for supplementary reading in primary schools and were considered the best of their kind produced in Australia by that time.

[6] In 1911, the book Bush Days, another collection of Mack's essays for adults from the Sydney Morning Herald, was published.