Virginia Frances Townsend
Born1836
New Haven, Connecticut
DiedAugust 11, 1920[1]
Arlington, Massachusetts
Occupationauthor

Virginia Frances Townsend (1836 – August 11, 1920) was an American 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

References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Deidre (2003). "Virginia Frances Townsend". 19th-Century Girls' Series.
  2. 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.
  3. "Virginia F. Townsend, 86, is dead at Arlington". The Boston Globe. August 13, 1920.
  4. "The Librarian". Boston Evening Trascript. November 20, 1907.
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