Anna Hanson Dorsey nee McKenney (1815-1896) was the author of: Woodreve Manor; or, Six Months in Town (1852), May Brooke (1856), The Oriental Pearl; or, The Catholic Emigrants (1857), Coaina (1867), The Flemmings (1869), Nora Brady"s Vow and Mona the Vestal (1869), The Old Gray Rosary (1870), Tangled Paths (1879), Palms (1887), Beth"s Promise (1887), The Heiress of Carrigmona (1887) and The Fate of the Dane and Other Stories (1888).