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Sep 01, 1841 Delaware, Ohio, United States Died on 01 Jan 1913 (aged 71)
American journalist
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About Virginia Sharpe Patterson
- Mrs Anne Virginia Sharpe Patterson (September 1841, Delaware, Ohio – 1913) was an American author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Garry Gaines. Anne Virginia Sharpe was the daughter of George W.
- Sharpe, the youngest member of the Maryland Senate, and Caroline Snyder.
- Home-educated by her father until his death, she then attended the Delaware Female Seminary for three years.
- Upon marriage she moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio.
- Her first articles appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette.
- A series of satires, 'The Girl of the Period', proginally written for the Bellefontaine Examiner, was republished under the pen-name Garry Gaines in 1878.
- Despite bad health from 1881 onwards, she continued an active life.
- In 1889 she was vice-president of the Ohio Women's Press Club.
- In 1890 she founded the Woman's Club of Bellefontaine, Ohio.
