Background
Sarah Anne Dorsey was born on February 16, 1829 on her father’s plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, United States.
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Sarah Anne Dorsey was born on February 16, 1829 on her father’s plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, United States.
Dorsey's education, capped by a tour of Europe, was based chiefly on languages and the fine arts.
A devout woman given to writing, Dorsey soon began publishing her pious reflections in the New York Churchman.
Her house was burned during the war, and she was surrounded by armies, but she continued to write for magazines.
Removing to Texas for greater tranquillity, she became a nurse in a Confederate hospital.
In 1866 she published her voluble but conscientious Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen, Confederate governor of Louisiana.
In the preface she stated that if that biography were favorably received she might be encouraged to write others, “to progress still further in this, my labor of love; like Old Mortality, freshening the epitaphs, which are already yielding to the corroding tooth of Time, on the gravestones of Southern Heroes. ”
She progressed instead to fiction, all more or less autobiographical in nature, and written as “Filia”—reminiscent of the name “Filia Ec- clesiae” bestowed upon her by the Churchman.
During 1874-75 she prepared a series of papers on philosophy for a learned body in New Orleans, and in 1877 she completed her morbid and sensational Panola, a Tale of Louisiana.
Her husband died in 1875, and after that time she made her home principally at “Beauvoir, ” Miss.
She had known Mrs. Jefiferson Davis since the two were girls, and in the beginning of 1877 Davis himself came to live at her house as a guest.
It was her desire to collect and edit his writings and his recollections.
She became his amanuensis, and in that capacity—and as his friend—she bent herself to obtain from him the important information which he alone could give.
At her death it was disclosed that she had made Davis several valuable bequests, including her home.
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In 1853 Dorsey married Samuel W. Dorsey, originally of Maryland, but at the time of his marriage a planter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
