Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884-1970) was an American poet and prose author.
Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884-1970). Courtesy Georgia Women of Achievement.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Barrow was born Elfrida De Renne in Philadelphia.[1]
When she was young, her parents moved to Biarritz, France, where she grew up speaking both English and French.[1]
She received her education at a New York finishing school.[1]
Marriage and career[]
In 1906, she married Dr. Craig Barrow of Athens, Georgia, at Wormsloe, the family’s coastal estate near Savannah, Georgia.[1]
Barrow joined the Georgia Historical Society in 1920 as curator, one of the first women accepted into the organization.[1] In her years as curator, she had 2 articles published in the Society's journal, The Georgia Historicl Quarterly.[2]
Poetry[]
In 1920, Barrow co-founded The Poetry Society of Georgia with 4 other women, calling themselves the "Prosodists."[3] The women brought poet and editor Harriet Monroe to Savannah to review their poetry, leading to Monroe's journal Poetry featuring Barrow's poetry.[3] The journal continued to publish Barrow's poetry for many years.[4]
Wormsloe Foundation[]
In 1930, Barrow took over her brother's mortgage at the Wormsloe Plantation, where the family had upheld a tradition of printing publications and building a library.[5] When Barrow and her husband moved to Athens, she made the library collection available to the University of Georgia.[5]
In 1951, Barrow founded the Wormsloe Foundation, turning over the majority of the publications.[1]
Publications[]
Non-fiction[]
- Anchored Yesterdays: The log book of Savannah's voyage across a Georgia century, in ten watches (with Laura Palmer Bell). Savannah, Ga., Review Pub. and Print., 1923.
- Georgia: A pageant of years (with others). Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1933.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Barrow, Elfrida De Renne". Georgia Women of Achievement. http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/barrow-elfrida-de-renne/. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ Savage Anderson, Mary; Elfrida De Renne Barrow; Elizabeth Mackay Screven; Martha Gallaudet Waring (December 1933). . "Georgia. A Pageant of Years". The Georgia Historical Quarterly 17 (4): 318. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40576287 .. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Strong, Katharine H. (Spring 1954). . "The Poetry Society of Georgia". The Georgia Review 8 (1): 29–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41380630 .. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ De Renne Barrow, Elfrida (April 1922). . "I Wonder". Poetry 20 (1): 21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20573532 .. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bragg, William Harris. "Wormsloe Plantation". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Georgia Humanities Council. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/wormsloe-plantation. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Elfrida De Renne Barrow, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 23, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Elfrida De Renne Barrow in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "Impressions," "Recognition," "Twilight," "Death," "I Wonder"
- About
- Elfrida De Renne Barrow, 1884-1970 at Georgia Women of Achievement
- De Renne Family in the New Georgia Encylopedia
- Eldrida De Renne Barrow at Find a Grave
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