Elsa Gidlow

Elfie Gidlow was a Britishborn, CanadianAmerican poet, freelance journalist, and philosopher. She is best known for writing On A Grey Thread , possibly the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America. In the 1950s, Gidlow helped found Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California. She was the author of thirteen books and appeared as herself in the documentary film, Word Is Out Stories of Some of Our Lives . Completed just before her death, her autobiography, Elsa, I Come with My Songs , recounts her life story.

Elsa Gidlow was born Elfie Gidlow onDecember 1898 in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Sometime around 1904, the Gidlow family emigrated to Ttreaultville, Quebec, Canada. At the age of fifteen, Gidlow and her family moved to Montreal. She was first employed by a contact of her fathers in Montreal, a factory doctor, as assistant editor to Factory Facts, an inhouse magazine.

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