About Virginia Frances Townsend
Lived 1836 – 1920 (aged 83–84). Virginia Frances Townsend was an American writer.
Virginia Frances Townsend (1836 – August 11, 1920) was an American author.
She was editor of Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine and a contributing author to other magazines. She later taught at Dr. Dio Lewis's School for Young Ladies, where she was an advocate of exercise and physical education for women.
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.
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
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American author
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Virginia Frances Townsend was born in 1836 in New Haven.
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Virginia Frances Townsend died on 11 August 1920 in Arlington.
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Virginia Frances Townsend was a writer.
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