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Virginia Frances Townsend (1836 – August 11, 1920) 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

• Only girls (1872) Boston: Lee and Shepard
• That Queer Girl (1874) Boston: Lee & Shepard
• One Woman's Two Lovers (1875) Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott
• A Boston Girl's Ambitions, (1887) Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham

References

1. ^ Johnson, Deidre (2003). "Virginia Frances Townsend". 19th-Century Girls' Series.
2. Leonard, John William, ed. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. American Commonwealth Company. p. 822.
3. "Virginia F. Townsend, 86, is dead at Arlington". The Boston Globe. August 13, 1920.
4. "The Librarian". Boston Evening Transcript. November 20, 1907.

• American writers
• People from New Haven, Connecticut
• 1836 births
• 1920 deaths