Frances Margaret (Fanny) Allen (November 13 1784 – September 10 1819) was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War General Ethan Allen she converted to Catholicism and entered the convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph in Montreal in 1811.
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