Virginia Wales Johnson

Virginia Wales Johnson (28 December 1849, in Brooklyn, New York – 16 January 1916^[1]) was a United States novelist.

Her parents were from Boston, and she was home schooled.^[1] After 1875 she lived in Florence, Italy.

Works

Her early publications were mainly for young people. She later wrote fiction for adults.^[1] Her works include:

• Kettle Club Series (1870)
• Travels of an American Owl (1870)
• Joseph the Jew (1873)
• A Sack of Gold (1874)
• The Catskill Fairies (1875)
• The Calderwood Secret (1875)
• A Foreign Marriage (1880)
• The Neptune Vase (1881) — "her finest work" — 1920 Encyclopedia Americana
• The Famalls of Tipton (1885)
• Tulip's Place (1886)
• Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage (1887)
• The House of the Musician (1887)
• Lake Como: a World's Shrine, on Como, Italy (1902) at archive.org
• A Lift on the Road (1913)

Descriptive works

• The Lily of the Arno, or, Florence, Past and Present (1891)
• Genoa the Superb, the City of Columbus (1892)
• Many Years of a Florence Balcony (1911)

Notes

1. Sarah G. Bowerman (1933). "Johnson, Virginia Wales". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Johnson, Virginia Wales" . Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

• "Harper's Magazine: Virginia W. Johnson". harpers.org. Retrieved 25 July 2011.