Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884-1970). Courtesy Georgia Women of Achievement.
Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884-1970) was an American poet and prose author.
Life[]
Barrow was born Elfrida De Renne in Philadelphia. When she was young, her parents moved to Biarritz, France, where she grew up speaking both English and French. She received her education at a New York finishing school. 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[]
- 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[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "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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