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Foxhall Daingerfield
1887–1933
A Virginia-born playwright and novelist, he left behind a small body of early 20th-century work that includes the play The Southern Cross and the novel Wilderness House. His writing points to a strong interest in dramatic storytelling and Southern settings.
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The southern cross : A play in four acts
by Foxhall Daingerfield
About the author
Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1887, Foxhall Daingerfield was an American author and playwright. Sources available during this search agree that he later died in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1933.
Daingerfield is best remembered for The Southern Cross: A Play in Four Acts, which survives through Project Gutenberg and library records, and for the novel Wilderness House. Bibliographic listings suggest that his published output was limited, but it has remained traceable through major library and public-domain catalogs.
Some biographical notes also describe him as a graduate of Transylvania College and Washington and Lee University. Because detailed contemporary biographical material appears to be scarce, many personal details about his life are not well documented in the readily available sources.