The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Johnson, Virginia Wales

JOHNSON, Virginia Wales, American novelist: b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 28 Dec. 1849. Since 1875 she has lived in Florence, Italy. Her publications, mainly for young folk, 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,’ her finest work (1881); ‘The Famalls of Tipton’ (1885); ‘Tulip's Place’ (1886); ‘Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage’ (1887); ‘The House of the Musician’ (1887); ‘The World's Shrine’ (1902); ‘A Lift on the Road’ (1913); and other fictions and several descriptive works, such as ‘Genoa, the Superb’; ‘The Lily of the Arno’; ‘Lake Como’; ‘Many Years of a Florence Balcony’ (1911).