Anna Hanson Dorsey was an American novelist and writer. A convert to Catholicism

Catholicism

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 in 1840, she was a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States.

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...

 twice sent her his benediction, and the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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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.

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