CLOUD, VIRGINIA WOODWARD

Unmarried; was educated at private schools in Baltimore. Began writing in 1893, Was literary editor of the Baltimore News from 1906-14. She wrote the music and words of several songs, critical articles, stories and poems in leading magazines and was the author of: A Woman, a Spaniard and a Walnut Tree, The Other Thing, From a Little Red Birthright and other noveletts, also The Witch, The Ballad of Sweet P and The Matrimonial Opportunities of Maria Pratt (used by impersonators) and nineteen connected tales of Colonial and Revolutionary periods. rus), a kind of raspberry, bearing large white flowers and orange-yellow edible fruit grows in N. temperate regions.