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| birth_date = 1815
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1896|12|26|1815}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
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| genre = Novels, Short Stories
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| spouse = Lorenzo Dorsey
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| awards = Laetare Medal
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}}Anna Hanson Dorsey (1815 – 26 December 1896) was an American author of novels and short stories. A convert to Catholicism, she was a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States. FamilyBorn Anna Hanson in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the Rev. William McKenney, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, and Chloe Ann Lanigan McKenney.[ In 1837 she married Lorenzo Dorsey, a Baltimore judge.][ Their only son died fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War.][ Her daughter, Ella Loraine Dorsey, was an author.{{sfn|James Emmett Ryan|2013|p=104}}] Writing careerDorsey converted to Catholicism in 1840 and thereafter devoted herself to Catholic literature, mainly in the form of stories and novels, although she wrote a small amount of poetry as well.[ Her more than 40 novels frequently centered on a religious conversion narrative aimed at her largely Protestant audiences, and her New York Times obituary referred to her as a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States.][ Her plots tended towards melodrama, with elements such as mistaken identities, mysterious disappearances, and false accusations.][ Her novel Coaina: The Rose of the Algonquins was translated into both German and Hindustani and also made into a stage play.][ At least two of her novels — The Student of Blenheim Forest (1847) and The Sister of Charity (1850) — were still in print at the end of the century.] Pope Leo XIII twice sent her his benediction, and the University of Notre Dame conferred upon her the Lætare medal.[1]She died in Washington, D.C. Selected works{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|- The Student of Blenheim Forest (1847)
- Flowers of Love of Memory (1849)
- Oriental Pearl; or, the Catholic Immigrants (1850)
- Tears of the Diadem or, the Crown and the Cloister (1850)
- The Sister of Charity (1850)
- Woodreve Manor (1853)
- Conscience, or the Trials of May Brooke (1856)
- Coaina: The Rose of the Algonquins (1867)
- Nora Brady's Vow (1869)
- Tangled Paths (1885)
- Adrift (1887)
- The Heiress of Carrigmona (1887)
- The Old House at Glenaran (1887)
- Palms (1887)
- The Fate of the Dane and Other Stories (1888)
- Zoe's Daughter (1888)
- Ada's Trust
- Beth's Promise
- Mona, the Vestal
- The Flemings
- The Old Gray Rosary
- The Student of Blenheim Forest
- Warp and Woof
}}References1. ^Waggaman, Mary. "Anne Hanson Dorsey." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 8 March 2019{{{PD-notice}}
Attribution- {{Catholic|wstitle=Anna Hanson Dorsey}}
Bibliography- {{cite book|ref=harv|author=James Emmett Ryan|title=Faithful Passages: American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u7cK9qPjOFUC&pg=PA104|date=15 March 2013|publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres|isbn=978-0-299-29063-4}}
Further reading- Thorp, Willard. "Catholic Novelists in Defense of Their Faith, 1829–1865". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 78, pt. 1 (1968), pp. 25-117.
External links - {{gutenberg author|id=Anna_Hanson_Dorsey|name=Anna Hanson Dorsey}}
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