Dorsey, Anne Hanson

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• Anne Hanson Dorsey —     Anne Hanson Dorsey     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Anne Hanson Dorsey     Novelist, born at Georgetown, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1815; died at Washington, 26 December, 1896. She was the daughter of the Rev. William McKenney, a chaplain in… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• 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 …   Wikipedia

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