Anna Cogswell Wood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Cogswell Wood

American writer, art collector, teacher, and the co-founder of Leache-Wood Seminary

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1850

Place of Birth: Winchester, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1940

Profession: writer, teacher, art collector

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Anna "Annie" Cogswell Wood (born in Winchester, VA, August 2, 1850, died in Florence, Italy, February 9, 1940) was an American writer, art collector, teacher, and the co-founder of Leache-Wood Seminary in Norfolk, Virginia.
When writing, she wrote under both her own name and the pseudonym Algernon Ridgeway.
Upon the death of her friend, Irene Leache, she founded the Irene Leache Memorial Collection, now a part of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk.