Virginia Sharpe Patterson

Dickey Downy: the Autobiography of a Bird (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Virginia Sharpe Patterson Illustrated edition

Mrs. Anne Virginia Sharpe Patterson (1841-1913) was an American author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Garry Gaines. She 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, originally 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 vicepresident of the Ohio Women's Press Club. In 1890 she founded the Woman's Club of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Her works include: Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird (1899), All on Account of a Bonnet and The Wonderland Children.