Leprohon, Rosanna (1832–1879)

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Leprohon, Rosanna (1832–1879)

Canadian novelist. Born Rosanna Mullins, 1832, in Montreal, Canada; died 1879; m. Jean-Lucien Leprohon (physician); children: 13.

Works, which evoke 19th-century French Canada, include Antoinette de Mirecourt; or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing: A Canadian Tale (1864) and Armand Durand; or A Promise Fulfilled (1868); advocated education of women and marriage as equal partnership.