Virginia Frances Townsend
Virginia Frances Townsend was an American author.
She was editor of Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine and a contributing author to other magazines. She later taught at Dr. Dio Lewis's School for Young Ladies, where she was an advocate of exercise and physical education for women. She was a member of the Boston Authors Club.
A group of librarians in Boston put Townsend's name on a list of authors whose books should be banned from libraries because of "false and dangerous ideas of life" purportedly in the books.
Selected work
- ' Boston: Lee and Shepard
- ' Boston: Lee & Shepard
- ' Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott
- ', Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham