Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884–1970) was an author and poet who has been honored as a Georgia Woman of Achievement.
[1] Barrow joined the Georgia Historical Society in 1920 as a curator and one of the first women allowed into the organization.
In 1920, Barrow co-founded The Poetry Society of Georgia with four other women, calling themselves the "Prosodists.
[4] 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.