Anne Hanson Dorsey

Anne Hanson Dorsey

Anne Hanson Dorsey (born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December1896) was an American novelist and writer for the young. A convert to Catholicism in 1840, she was a pioneer of light 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";
*"Flowers of Love of Memory";
*"Guy, the Leper";
*"Tears of the Diadem";
*"Tale of the White and Red Roses";
*"Woodreve Manor";
*"Conscience, or the Trials of May Brooke";
*"Oriental Pearl";
*"Cocaina, the Rose of the Algonquins";
*"The Flemings";
*"Nora Brady's Vow";
*"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.


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