About Virna Woods
Lived 1864 – 1903 (aged 38–39). Virna Woods was an American playwright, poet, novelist and writer.
Virna Woods ( – ) was an American author, poet, and playwright.
Virna Woods was born on in Wilmington, Ohio, the daughter of John Brookins Woods and Virginia Alice Pidgeon. She was raised in Zanesville, Ohio. She relocated to California in 1883 and worked as a schoolteacher in Sacramento, California.
Most of her work is set in California. Her novels include Jason Hildreth's Identity, which appeared in Lippincott's Monthly in 1897.
She created a stage adaptation of Strathmore by Ouida, produced in San Francisco in 1903 starring Virginia Drew Trescott.
Virna Woods died of pneumonia on March 6, 1903, in Sacramento. A Modern Magdalen (1894) An Elusive Lover (1898)
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Who was Virna Woods?
American author and playwright
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Virna Woods was born in 1864 in Wilmington.
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Virna Woods died in 1903 in Sacramento.
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Virna Woods was a playwright, poet, novelist and writer.
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Virna Woods was American.
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