About Virginia Woodward Cloud
Lived 1861 – 1938 (aged 76–77). Virginia Woodward Cloud was an American writer and poet.
Virginia Woodward Cloud (1861 – April 4, 1938) was an American writer.
Early life and education Virginia Woodward Cloud was born in 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Maria (Woodward) and Daniel Cloud, a banker.
Career Cloud's writing career began in 1893. She was literary editor of the Baltimore News from 1906 to 1914 and a member of the board of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore.
Cloud wrote poetry and short stories, some of which were about the colonial and revolutionary eras in American history. Some of her poems were written in "Negro dialect". Candlelight (1924) The Collected Poems of Virginia Woodward Cloud (1939)
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American writer (1861–1938)
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