VIRGINIA WALES JOHNSON
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An American prose-writer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1849. Her publications 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); "Tulip Place" (1886); "Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage" (1887); "The House of the Musician" (1887); "The World's Shrine" (1902).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.