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ELLIOTT, Sarah Bull Barnwell

City: Sewanee

ELLIOTT, Sarah Bull Barnwell, writer; born in Savannah, Ga.; English descent; daughter of Stephen and Charlotte Bull (Barnwell) ELLIOTT; father’s occupation, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Georgia; paternal grandparents Stephen and Esther (Hubersham) ELLIOTT, maternal grandparents John Gibbs and Sarah (Bull) BARNWELL; member of Colonial Dames, S. C., Descendants Colonial Governors, United Daughters of Confederacy, Lyceum Club, London, Wednesday Afternoon Cub, New York, Civic League, Sewanee, Tenn., Woman’s Press Club, Tenn., and Woman’s Political Union, N. Y.; author of the following books: “The Felmeres,” “A Simple Heart,” “Jerry,” “John Padget,” “An Incident and Other Happenings,” “Durket Sperret,” and “The Making of Jane;” dramas, “His Majesty’s Servant,” ran in London one hundred nights, Louis Waller at Imperial theater; essays: “Ibsen,” Sewanee (Tenn.) Review, “Woman and Civilization” in Forensic Quarterly, “An Epoch Making Settlement Between Labor and Capitol,” Forensic Quarterly; member of Episcopal church.