Virginia Frances Townsend
Virginia Frances Townsend (1836 – August 11, 1920) was an American author.
Virginia Frances Townsend | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1836 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Died | August 11, 1920[1] Arlington, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | author |
Biography
Townsend was editor of Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine and a contributing author to other magazines.[2] She later taught at Dr. Dio Lewis's School for Young Ladies where she was an advocate of exercise and physical education for women.[1] She was a member of the Boston Authors Club.[3]
A group of librarians in Boston put Townsend's name on a list of authors whose books should be banned from libraries because of "false and dangerous ideas of life" purportedly in the books.[4]
Selected work
- Only girls (1872) Boston: Lee and Shepard
- That Queer Girl (1874) Boston: Lee & Shepard
- One Woman's Two Lovers (1875) Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott
- A Boston Girl's Ambitions, (1887) Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham
References
- Johnson, Deidre (2003). "Virginia Frances Townsend". 19th-Century Girls' Series.
- Leonard, John William, ed. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. American Commonwealth Company. p. 822.
- "Virginia F. Townsend, 86, is dead at Arlington". The Boston Globe. August 13, 1920.
- "The Librarian". Boston Evening Trascript. November 20, 1907.
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