Anna "Annie" Cogswell Wood 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.
- Occupation
- writer, art collector, teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 2, 1850
- Died
- February 9, 1940
