Ella Loraine Dorsey

Ella Loraine Dorsey
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	(1853-03-02)March 2, 1853 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	November 4, 1935(1935-11-04) (aged 82) Washington, D. C., U.S.
Resting place	Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Pen name	E. L. Dorsey
Occupation	author, journalist, translator
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Georgetown Academy of the Visitation
Genre	juvenile literature

Ella Loraine Dorsey (pen name, E. L. Dorsey; March 2, 1853 – November 4, 1935) was an American author, journalist, and translator. She contributed articles to magazines and wrote many stories, among them Midshipman Bob, Jet, the War Mule, The Taming of Polly, The Children of Avalon, The Jose Maria, The Two Tramps, Saxty's Angel, Pickle and Pepper, The End of the White Man's Trail, and Pocahontas.^[1]

She entered journalistic work in 1871, and for ten years was a special correspondent and special writer on Washington, D.C. newspapers, subsequently serving in a similar capacity for newspapers in Chicago, Boston and Cincinnati. In 1886, she specialized in the writing of Catholic juvenile fiction. She was one of the indexers and Russian translators in the Scientific Library of the United States Department of the Interior, and during the Spanish–American War, was a volunteer assistant in the Hospital Corps of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving on the executive staff and handling all correspondence relating to Roman Catholic Sisters who served as contract nurses in the United States, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Dorsey was a member of the advisory board of Trinity College. She was also a member and officer of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, and other patriotic societies.