Elizabeth Wade White

[3][4] Her maternal grandfather was Henry Lawton Wade (1842–1912), a stockholder of the Waterbury Clock Company who left $1.75 million ($55,251,724 in 2023 dollars) to his two daughters, Lucy and Mary, Elizabeth's mother.

They remained life-long friends and White was often a guest at the 18th-century Royalston, Massachusetts, houses Bullock's father bought and restored.

[2] Early in 1927, White attended the Miss Risser's school in Rome together with her cousin, Helen "Henny" Chase Streeter, daughter of Edward Clark Streeter and Alice Chase, who later married John Bertram Whitelaw.

This was actually an excuse used with her family; her real intent was to meet English novelist and poet, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and her partner Valentine Ackland, and to join the American Friends Service Committee, a group that was providing relief workers to Spain.

[1] At the beginning of World War II, White went back to the United States, living in New York City and volunteering for the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver.

For this reason she was in contact with Peter Pears, who was collecting Craske's works, and she donated her papers about the artists to the Aldeburgh Festival Archive (now part of the Britten-Pears Library).

[1][8] In 1939 White met Evelyn Virginia Holahan (August 28, 1905 – May 27, 1985) and they later shared an apartment in Greenwich Village.

At the end of 1945, White moved back to Middlebury, living at "The Patch", the house her grandmother, Martha Starkweather Wade, left her.

In 1985 her companion Holahan died and White continued to live at "The Patch" till her own death.

program at University of Oxford, even though she did not have an undergraduate degree; she was accepted thanks to the research she had conducted on Anne Bradstreet.