Blanche McManus
Blanche McManus | |
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Born | 1869 East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States |
Died | 1935 |
Occupation | Illustrator, writer |
Spouse(s) |
Street of Mosques, Tunis, 1908
Blanche McManus (1869–1935)[1] was an American writer and artist. She and her husband, 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.[2]
McManus inherited Hampton Hall, a historic mansion in Woodville, Mississippi, with her two sisters in 1909.[3] She did the murals in the parlor.[3]
Collections[]
Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[4]
Books Written/Illustrated[]
Many of these books may have only been cover design illustrations by Blanche McManus.
Date | Author | Title | Publisher |
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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 | 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 | The Cathedrals of Northern France | Boston: L. C. Page & Co. | |
1904 | 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 | The Spell of Old Paris | Boston: L. C. Page & Co. | |
1905 | 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 | 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[]
- ^ "McManus, Blanche, 1869–1935" . Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress (loc.gov). Retrieved July 22, 2016.
- ^ "Blanche McManus (Mansfield)". Kellscraft Studio (kellscraft.com). February 17, 2008. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form [completed for Hampton Hall]". National Park Service (nps.gov). Retrieved December 11, 2015.
- ^ "Blanche McManus Mansfield | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
External links[]
- Works by Blanche McManus at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Blanche McManus (illustrator) at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Blanche McManus at Internet Archive
- Works by Blanche McManus at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- McManus biography
- Blanche McManus at Library of Congress Authorities, with 45 catalog records
Categories:
- 1869 births
- 1935 deaths
- 19th-century American novelists
- 19th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American children's writers
- American women children's writers
- American women illustrators
- American illustrators
- American women novelists
- People from East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana