In memory of Virginia Coffman

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Virginia Coffman was born in San Francisco on July 30, 1914, and worked in the Hollywood studios during the Golden and Silver years. She has worked on many TV scripts as well as doing some acting herself. She began writing in 1959 and since then has had over ninety titles published. Virginia Coffman passed away on March 30, 2005.

In Moura, she took three ingredients of a typical nineteenth century Gothic - an evil uncle, equally wicked housekeeper and innocent niece — and surprised readers with a shocking plot turn. "I made the wicked uncle the hero, the villainous housekeeper the heroine, and the sweetest-girl-who-ever-lived the monster. And nobody has ever guessed the solution until the end. It's always been such a shock," she said with pride.

Virginia loved to travel and did so almost exclusively by ship. "I believe in going first-class all the way," she admitted pleasantly. 

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

She was a very lady. Pity she is little remembered now. Elisa