Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh

Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh was an American author born in 1859 and died in 1948. Reliable catalog and library sources identify her as the author of Fountains of Papal Rome, and some listings note that the book was also associated with the name Mrs. Charles MacVeagh.

Reference sources connected her with Charles MacVeagh, an American diplomat, and with the wider MacVeagh family. Her writing is chiefly remembered today through Fountains of Papal Rome, a work that blends appreciation of Rome’s fountains with an interest in art, place, and cultural history.

Because detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm here, it is safest to describe her as a writer whose surviving reputation rests mainly on that book and on her place in an American family active in public and cultural life.