Elfrida Barrow

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Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884–1970) was an author and poet who has been honored as a Georgia Woman of Achievement. Barrow joined the Georgia Historical Society in 1920 as a curator and one of the first women allowed into the organization. In her years as curator, some of her articles were published in the journal, and she also began to have her poetry published.

Poetry

In 1920, Barrow co-founded The Poetry Society of Georgia with four other women, calling themselves the "Prosodists." The women brought poet and editor Harriet Monroe to Savannah to review their poetry, leading to Monroe's journal Poetry featuring Barrow's poetry. The journal continued to publish Barrow's poetry for many years.

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. When Barrow and her husband moved to Athens, she made the library collection available to the University of Georgia. In 1951, Barrow founded the Wormsloe Foundation, turning over the majority of the publications.

Works

Anchored Yesterdays:The Log Book of Savannah's Voyage Across a Georgia Century: in Ten Watches.

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Having acquired the title to Wormsloe House in 1931, Elfrida Barrow moved there in 1938. By that time Barrow had printed verse in Harriet Monroe's magazine Poetry and other publications, and she had also published some historical pieces in the Georgia Historical Quarterly and coauthored Anchored Yesterdays (1923, with Laura Palmer Bell) and Georgia: A Pageant of Years (1933).

In 1953 Barrow incorporated the Wormsloe Foundation, one of whose activities was the publication of historical works. In the De Renne tradition, these were principally primary materials such as the colonial journals of Peter Gordon and William Stephens. Also following tradition, she associated these books with the De Renne estate, calling them the Wormsloe Foundation Publications. The first volume, E. Merton Coulter's Wormsloe: Two Centuries of a Georgia Family, appeared in 1955; the twenty-first volume, a history of the De Renne family, was published in 1999.

In the last years of Elfrida Barrow's life, the Wormsloe Foundation purchased the rich manuscript collection of Keith Read of Savannah and presented it to the University of Georgia Library. Shortly before her death, the library also acquired the majority of the De Renne family papers from her brother's estate.

• Residence: 1910 - Savannah Ward 3, Chatham, Georgia, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States
• Residence: 1930 - Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States
• Residence: 1935 - Same Place
• Residence: 1940 - District 5, Chatham, Georgia, United States
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Elfrida was a writer and historian. She was one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Historical Society. She published books about life in Savannah and was a Georgia Woman of Achievement.

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