Frances Dickinson or Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus (July 12, 1755 – March 27, 1830) was a British prioress at Port Tobacco Carmel, Maryland (1755–1830).

[1] The idea of having a better representation in Maryland is credited to the Carmelite prioresses Bernadine Matthews at the English Hoogstraten Carmel and Mary Margaret Brent of the English Carmelite convent at Antwerp.

The following year the nuns abandoned the property because they were ordered to move to the larger city of Baltimore, across the Chesapeake Bay.

[5] The nuns' building in Port Tobacco, Mount Carmel Monastery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

[4] Media related to Frances Dickinson (prior) at Wikimedia Commons