Background
Johnson was born on December 28, 1849, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of M. Augustus and Sarah (Benson) Johnson. Her parents were Bostonians, and she was a descendant of Judge Samuel Sewall.
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The Catskill Fairies
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A Royal Physician. a Novel.
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Genoa The Superb: The City Of Columbus, By Virginia W. Johnson
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Virginia Wales Johnson
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Johnson's education was carried on at home and she began writing for her own amusement as a child.
Career
At fifteen Johnson was writing her Kettle Club Series (1860-1870), including The Kettle's Birthday Party and Grandfather's Pocket-Book. Her first novel, Joseph the Jew (1874), was published by Harper & Brothers in the Library of Select Novels and was taken for an English reprint. A Sack of Gold (1874), The Calderwood Secret (1875), and Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage (1876) were also published in that series. The Catskill Fairies (1876) was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia as an example of American typography and was reprinted in England. In 1871 the four volumes of the Doll's Club Series had appeared: Jack's Kite, Jo's Doll, Katy's Christmas, and Patty's Pranks.
In 1875 Johnson went to Europe with her mother and sister for travel and study, and found a European existence so much to her taste that she spent the remainder of her life there, chiefly in Italy. Her later novels and stories include "The Image of San Donato, " published in Harper's Magazine, January 1879; A Foreign Marriage, or, Buying a Title (1880), a story of modern Florentine life, published anonymously; The Neptune Vase (1881), a story of modern Siena and title-hunting American girls; Two Old Cats (1882), in which a chalet occupied by Queen Victoria at Mentone is the scene; An English "Daisy Miller" (1882), an attempt to show Henry James that not all indiscreet girls abroad are American; and The Fainalls of Tipton (1884). Most of her latest work took the form of books of travel and popular history: The Lily of the Arno, or, Florence, Past and Present (1891); Genoa the Superb, the City of Columbus (1892).
Beginning as a writer of children's books, she soon turned to fiction for adults. After 1875, her work shows intense love for Italy, both mediaeval and modern. Her knowledge of Italian history and literature and her familiarity with modern Italy, its fiestas, street life, sea and mountain resorts, are sufficient to make her books informative as well as readable. She never returned to the United States, so she probably died in Italy, on January 16, 1916.
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A Royal Physician. a Novel.
(Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary...)
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The Catskill Fairies
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Genoa The Superb: The City Of Columbus, By Virginia W. Johnson
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A World's Shrine
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- Lake Como: a World's Shrine by Virginia Wales Johnson (28-Sep-2009) Paperback
- The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan
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A Royal Physician. a Novel.
Connections
Johnson never married.
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American