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Fanny Kemble Johnson


May 22, 1868

Fanny Kemble Johnson was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia

1897

Fanny Kemble Johnson moved to West Virginia

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1907

Fanny Johnson and husband, Vincent Costello moved to Wheeling

Other events that happened on or around 1907

1916

Fanny Johnson published her only novel, The Beloved Son

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1917

Fanny Johnson and Vincent Costello moved back to Charleston

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1918

Fanny Johnson's story "They Both Needed It" was among the best short stories of the year

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1923

Ella Mae Turner published compilation Stories and Verses of West Virginia

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1935

Fanny Johnson's story "The Dinner Set" was published in Weird Tales

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Feb 15, 1950

Fanny Johnson died in Charleston

2000

Fanny Johnson's "The Strange Looking Man "was included in Oxford University Press anthology Women's Writing on the First World War

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