Before retirement she taught in a university, before that in high school and before that in elementary school. Even now she leads a small seminar that meets monthly to discuss works of English literature. But most mornings find her at her desk, writing something, short or long. Amorette’s Watch is her first full-length book. Virginia has published an article on Wordsworth and has coedited, with Richard E. Jensen, A Pike’s Peak Gold Rush Diary published in Nebraska History. Excerpts from it appear in Amorette’s Watch.