White, Elizabeth Wade, 1906-1994.

Elizabeth Wade White (1906-1994) was an author, self taught scholar, amateur poet, and activist. Educated through the high school level in Middlebury, Connecticut, she later studied sculpture in Rome and New York. In the 1930s she moved to New York City, and supported Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal while participating in investigations of labor conditions in mining and industrial towns.

In the late 1930s White moved to Dorset, England – telling her family she was going to research Anne Bradstreet. She actually intended to meet up with Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner Valentine Ackland and participate with the American Friends Service Committee as a relief worker in Spain. She made several trips to Spain in 1937 and 1938, with her parents sending telegrams in increasing amounts asking her to return to the United States.

...