Editing Lola Ridge (section)

==Early life==

Rose Emily Ridge was born in 1873 in [[Dublin]], Ireland, to Emma Ridge (née Reilly) and Joseph Henry. She was her parents' only surviving child. John Henry died when Ridge was three-years-old, and Ridge and her mother subsequently emigrated to [[Hokitika]], New Zealand, when she was six-years-old.<ref name=":0" /> In 1895, she married Peter Webster, the manager of a Hokitika gold mine. In 1903 she left Webster and moved to Sydney, Australia with their three-year-old son Keith to attend Trinity College and study painting at the [[Julian Ashton Art School|Sydney Art School]] with [[Julian Ashton]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Byrne|first=Angela|date=27 February 2020|title=Herstory: Lola Ridge – 1873–1941: Modernist poet, anarchist, labour activist|url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/herstory/2019/0904/1073877-herstory-lola-ridge/|access-date=17 February 2021|publisher=RTÉ}}</ref><ref name="ridge"/>

After her mother died, Ridge emigrated to the United States in 1907 and reinvented herself as Lola Ridge, a poet and painter. She settled in San Francisco and published in ''[[Overland Monthly]]''.<ref name="ridge" /> Ridge placed her son in a Californian orphanage<ref name=":0" /> and moved to New York City's [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name="ridge" /> Working as a model for artists, in a factory and as a poet and illustrator, she became involved in working class politics and protests, and worked with [[Emma Goldman]] and [[Margaret Sanger]].<ref name="ridge">[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lola-ridge "Lola Ridge"], Poetry Foundation</ref> Her first book of poetry was published in 1918. On 22 October 1919, Ridge married David Lawson, a fellow radical.<ref name="ridge"/>