Anna Hanson Dorsey

Anna Hanson Dorsey (born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December 1896) was an American novelist and writer. A convert to Catholicism in 1840, she was a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States.

Pope Leo XIII twice sent her his benediction, and the University of Notre Dame conferred upon her the Lætare medal.

Works

• "The Student of Blenheim Forest" (1847);
• "Flowers of Love of Memory";
• "The Sister of Charity" (1850);
• "Guy, the Leper";
• "Tears on the Diadem";
• "Tale of the White and Red Roses";
• "Woodreve Manor";
• "Conscience, or the Trials of May Brooke";
• "Oriental Pearl; or, the Catholic Immigrants" (1868);
• "Coaina, the Rose of the Algonquins" (1867);
• "The Flemings";
• "Nora Brady's Vow" (1869);
• "The Mad Penitent of Todi" (n.d.)
• "Mona, the Vestal";
• "The Old Gray Rosary";
• "Tangled Paths";
• "The Old House at Glenarra";
• "Adrift";
• "Ada's Trust";
• "Beth's Promise";
• "The Heiress of Carrigmona";
• "Warp and Woof";
• "The Palms".

Family

She was the daughter of the Rev. William McKenney, a chaplain in the United States Navy, and Chloe Ann Lanigan McKenney. In 1837 she married Lorenzo Dorsey.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Anna Hanson Dorsey". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

External links

• Works by Anna Hanson Dorsey at Project Gutenberg