Dorsey, Sarah Anne (1829–1879)
Dorsey, Sarah Anne (1829–1879)
American prose writer. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Feb 16, 1829; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 4, 1879; owned a plantation called Beauvoir, just outside Biloxi, Mississippi.
A linguist and student of Sanskrit, wrote Lucia Dare (1867), Panola: A Tale of Louisiana (1877), Atalie and Agnes Graham; was amanuensis to Jefferson Davis in the preparation of his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
See also Women in World History.
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