Sarah Mary Brownson (June 7, 1839,
Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. As of the 2020 census, Chelsea had a population of 40,787. With a total area of just 2.46 s ...
– October 30, 1876,
) was an American writer.
She was the daughter of
Orestes A. Brownson and the wife of
William J. Tenney
William Jewett Tenney (1814 at Newport, Rhode Island – 20 September 1883, at Newark, New Jersey) was an American author, editor and encyclopedist.
Life
Graduating from Yale University in 1832 he studied medicine, but abandoned it for the law an ...
, whom she married in 1873.
She and Tenney had two daughters: Ruth Channing Tenney and Mary Brownson Tenney.
Works
She is best known for her ''Life of
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian nobility, Russian aristocrat and Catholic Church, Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies and also in the United States as Prince Galitzin. He ...
, Prince and Priest'' (F. Pustet & Co,, New York, 1873, Didier & Cie., París, 1880).
She wrote literary criticism for her father's "Review", and many articles, stories, and poems which appeared mainly in Catholic magazines. Other works included:
*''Marian Elwood, or How Girls Live'' (E. Dunigan, New York, 1859, D. & J. Sadlier & Co., New York, 1863, 1866, P.J. Kenedy, New York, 18--)
*''At Anchor; a story of our Civil War'' (D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1865)
*"Heremore Brandon; or the Fortunes of a Newsboy" (''The Catholic World'', 1869).
References
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External links
*http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/i/c/Sara-A-Rice/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1640.html
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1839 births
1876 deaths
Writers from Chelsea, Massachusetts
19th-century American writers
American Roman Catholic poets
Writers from Elizabeth, New Jersey
Manhattanville College alumni
19th-century American women writers