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 &lsquo;Kettle Club Series&rsquo; (1870); &lsquo;Travels of an American Owl&rsquo; (1870); &lsquo;Joseph the Jew&rsquo; (1873); &lsquo;A Sack of Gold&rsquo; (1874); &lsquo;The Catskill Fairies&rsquo; (1875); &lsquo;The Calderwood Secret&rsquo; (1875); &lsquo;A Foreign Marriage&rsquo; (1880); &lsquo;The Neptune Vase,&rsquo; her finest work (1881); &lsquo;The Famalls of Tipton&rsquo; (1885); &lsquo;Tulip's Place&rsquo; (1886); &lsquo;Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;The House of the Musician&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;The World's Shrine&rsquo; (1902); &lsquo;A Lift on the Road&rsquo; (1913); and other fictions and several descriptive works, such as &lsquo;Genoa, the Superb&rsquo;; &lsquo;The Lily of the Arno&rsquo;; &lsquo; Lake Como&rsquo;; &lsquo;Many Years of a Florence Balcony&rsquo; (1911).