Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren

Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (pen names, Corinne and Cornelia; July 13, 1825 – May 28, 1898) was an American writer, translator, and anti-suffragist. Her volume, ''Idealities'' (Philadelphia, 1859) was her first work in book form. Thereafter, she found time to write upon a great variety of subjects. She made several translations from the French, Spanish and Italian languages, notably Charles Forbes René de Montalembert's brochure, "Pius IX," the abstruse philosophical work of Juan Donoso Cortés from the Spanish, and the monograph of Adolphe de Chambrun on "The Executive Power" (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1874). These translations brought her positive recognitions, among others, a flattering letter from Montalembert. She was the author of a voluminous ''Biography of Admiral Dahlgren'', and a number of novels including ''South-Mountain Magic'' (Boston, 1882), ''A Washington Winter'' (Boston, 1883), ''The Lost Name'' (Boston, 1886), ''Lights and Shadows of a Life'' (Boston, 1887), ''Divorced'' (New York City, 1887), ''South Sea Sketches'' (Boston), and a volume on ''Etiquette of Social Life in Washington'' (Philadelphia, 1881), ''Thoughts on Female Suffrage'' (Washington, D.C., 1871), and also of a great number of essays, articles, reviews and short stories written for papers and periodicals. Occasionally, Dahlgren expressed herself in verse, and several of her efforts are included in anthologies of poets.

Dahlgren's estate was on South Mountain, Maryland, overlooking the battlefield. In 1870 and 1873, she actively opposed the movement for female suffrage, and drew up a petition to Congress, which was extensively signed, asking that the right to vote should not be extended to women. The Literary Society of Washington, of which she was one of the founders, held its meetings in her house for six years, and she was elected its vice-president. She was for some time president of the Ladies' Catholic Missionary Society of Washington, and built the chapel of St. Joseph's of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on South Mountain. Provided by Wikipedia