Blanche McManus

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| birth_date = 1869

| birth_place = East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States

| death_date = 1935

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| occupation = Illustrator, writer

| spouse = Francis Miltoun

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Blanche McManus (1869–1935)[https://web.archive.org/web/20180407184241/https://lccn.loc.gov/n89602402 "McManus, Blanche, 1869–1935"] . Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress (loc.gov). Retrieved July 22, 2016. was an American writer and artist. She and her husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield wrote a series of illustrated travel books, many of which included information about automobiles which were new at the time.

Biography

McManus was born on Talledega Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1870 and died in Louisiana on June 13, 1935.{{cite web|title=Blanche McManus (Mansfield) |url=http://www.kellscraft.com/mcmanusbioandpub.html |publisher=Kellscraft Studio (kellscraft.com) |date=February 17, 2008 |accessdate=June 27, 2011 }}

McManus inherited Hampton Hall, a historic mansion in Woodville, Mississippi, with her two sisters in 1909.{{cite web |url=http://focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=36fb34da-e875-4b7b-8f25-7da6ea5d89e5 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form [completed for Hampton Hall] |publisher=National Park Service (nps.gov) | access-date= December 11, 2015 }} She did the murals in the parlor.

Collections

Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Blanche McManus Mansfield {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/blanche-mcmanus-mansfield-3240 |website=americanart.si.edu}}

Books written/illustrated

Many of these books may have only been cover design illustrations by Blanche McManus.

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! Date

! Author

! Title

! Publisher

1896

| Maria Louise Pool

| Boss and Other Dogs

| Chicago: Stone and Kimball

1896

| Ian Maclaren

| Kate Carnegie

| Dodd, Mead

1896

| Charles Gibbon

| Margaret Carmichael

| New Amsterdam Book Co.

1896

| Blanche McManus

| The True Mother Goose.

| Boston: Lamson Wolffe & Co.

1897

| Rudyard Kipling

| Recessional

| NY: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels

1897

| Richard Mansfield

| Blown Away

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1897

| Isaac Watts

| Childhood's Songs of Long Ago

| NY: E. R. Herrick

1897

| Emily D. Elton

| A Mince Pie Dream: A Book of Children's Verse

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1897

| Blanche McManus

| The Voyage of the Mayflower

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1897

| Blanche McManus

| How the Dutch Came to Manhattan

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1898

| Tom Hall

| When Cupid Calls

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1898

| G. A. Henty

| Henty Series

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1898

| Alfred Lord Tennyson

| Crossing the Bar

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1898

| Blanche McManus

|Told in the Twilight: Stories to Tell Children

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1898

| Rudyard Kipling

| Mandalay

| NY: M. F. Mansfield & Co.

1898

| Blanche McManus

| Bachelor Ballads

| NY: New Amsterdam Book Co.

1898

| Walter Mapes

| A Canticle of Wine, or the Drinking Song of Walter D. Mapes

| NY: M. F. Mansfield & Co.

1899

| Ruth McEnery Stuart

| Holly and Pizen

| The Century Co.

1899

| Lewis Carroll

| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

| NY: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels

1899

| Rudyard Kipling

| The Betrothed

| NY: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels

1899

| Blanche McManus

| The Quaker Colony

| NY: E. R. Herrick & Co.

1900

| Alfred Lord Tennyson

| "In Memoriam"

| London: The Bankside Press

1900

| Lewis Carroll

| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

| NY: A. Wessels Company

1903

| Francis Miltoun

| The Cathedrals of Northern France

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1904

| G. Sidney Paternoster

| The Motor Pirate

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1904

| Blanche McManus

| The 'Sov'rane Herb' and the Smokers Year, a Calendar for MDCCCCIIII

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1904

| M.F. and Blanche McManus Mansfield

| Romantic Ireland

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1904

| Francis Miltoun

| Cathedrals of Southern France

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Henry C. Shelley

| The Spell of Old Paris

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Charles Rudy

| The Cathedrals of Northern Spain

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Francis Miltoun

| Rambles in Brittany

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Francis Miltoun

| Rambles in Normandy

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little English Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little French Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1905

| Francis Miltoun

| Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Nathaniel Hawthorne

| In Colonial Days

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Francis Miltoun

| Castles and Chateaux of Touraine and the Loire Country

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Francis Miltoun

| Rambles on the Riviera

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little Scotch Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

| Our Little Dutch Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

| Fernando, Our Little Spanish Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1907

| Charles Dickens

| The Seven Poor Travelers

| The Century Co.

1907

| Francis Miltoun

| The Automobilist Abroad

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1907

| Francis Miltoun

| Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1907

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little Hindu Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1907

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little Arabian Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1906

| Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

| Our Little Alaskan Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1908

| Mary Caroline Crawford

| Old Boston in Colonial Days

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1908

| Francis Miltoun

| In the Land of Mosques and Minerets

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1908

| Francis Miltoun

| The Spell of Algeria and Tunisia

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1908

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little Egyptian Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1909

| Henry C. Shelley

| Inns and Taverns of Old London

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1909

| Francis Miltoun

| Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1909

| Francis Miltoun

| Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy & the Border Provinces

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1910

| Francis Miltoun

| Royal Palaces and Parks of France

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1911

| Blanche McManus

| Our Little Belgian Cousin

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1911

| Blanche McManus

| The American Woman Abroad

| NY: Dodd, Mead

1912

| Blanche McManus

| Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes: Children's Favorite Rhymes & Jingles

| NY: The Platt & Peck Co.

1925

| Francis Miltoun

| The Spell of Normandy

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

1927

| Francis Miltoun

| The Spell of Brittany

| Boston: L. C. Page & Co.

References

External links

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Category:1869 births

Category:1935 deaths

Category:19th-century American novelists

Category:19th-century American women writers

Category:20th-century American novelists

Category:20th-century American women writers

Category:American children's writers

Category:American women children's writers

Category:American women illustrators

Category:American illustrators

Category:American women novelists

Category:People from East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana