Virginia Wales Johnson
# Virginia Wales Johnson

Virginia Wales Johnson (28 December 1849, in Brooklyn, New York – 16 January 1916) was a United States novelist.

Her parents were from Boston, and she was home schooled. After 1875 she lived in Florence, Italy.

## Works

Her early publications were mainly for young people. She later wrote fiction for adults. Her works include:

* Kettle Club Series (1870)
* Travels of an American Owl (1870)
* Joseph the Jew (1873)
* A Sack of Gold (1874)
* The Catskill Fairies (1875)
* The Calderwood Secret (1875)
* A Foreign Marriage (1880)
* The Neptune Vase (1881) — "her finest work" — 1920 Encyclopedia Americana
* The Famalls of Tipton (1885)
* Tulip's Place (1886)
* Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage (1887)
* The House of the Musician (1887)
* Lake Como: a World's Shrine, on Como, Italy (1902) at archive.org
* A Lift on the Road (1913)

### Descriptive works

* The Lily of the Arno, or, Florence, Past and Present (1891)
* Genoa the Superb, the City of Columbus (1892)
* Many Years of a Florence Balcony (1911)
