1976
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Gidlow states that some of these poems were published in 1923. She had not had not intended to republish her earlier works, but was persuaded to do to to do so. So it is that this collection is titled "SapphicSeventeen to Seventy." The poems which follow are an overview ofher life's work.
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Elsa Gidlow
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Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a poet, who in 1923 published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, On a Grey Thread. She promoted alternative spiritualities including Buddhism and Goddess Worship. In the 1940s she founded a rural retreat center, the Druid Heights Artists Retreat, in Marin County, California. She lived there until her death in 1986. Other residents at Druid Heights have included well-known figures such as her close friend Alan Watts and feminist theorist Catharine MacKinnon.
