Blanche McManus
Blanche McManus (1869–1935) 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.
Also recorded as Blanche McManus Mansfield
Blanche McManus
Blanche McManus · Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes · Public domain
- Name
- Blanche McManus
- Born
- 1869
- Birthplace
- East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Died
- 1935
- Occupation
- Illustrator, writer
- Spouse
- Francis Miltoun
- Nationality
- United States.
- Languages
- English.
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Blanche McManus (1869–1935) 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.
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Blanche McManus (died 1935) was an artist, illustrator and novelist, among other activities, of American nationality. The artist was born in East Feliciana Parish and died in New Orleans. Blanche McManus worked in Paris.
Languages used include English. Works are held at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Biography
Biography
McManus worked between 1864 and 1929 across writer, novelist, children's writer, artist and illustrator and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 21 published texts and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

An illustration from the Blanche McManus edition of Alice in Wonderland Other information an early illustration relevant to the article
Blanche McManus (Life time: 1870 and died in Louisiana on 13 June 1935) · Original publication: Mansfield Wessels published 'Wonderland' in 1899 Immediate source

Alice Through the Looking Glass illustrated by Blanche McManus
Lewis Carroll Blanche McManus (Illustrator) · Through the looking-glass, digitised copy at https: First published in 1899.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Blanche McManus • Born — 1869 • Birthplace — East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States • Died — 1935 • Occupation — Illustrator, writer • Spouse — Francis Miltoun • Illustration — Street of Mosques, Tunis, 1908
Biography
Biography
McManus was born on Talledega Plantation, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1870 and died in Louisiana on June 13, 1935. McManus inherited Hampton Hall, a historic mansion in Woodville, Mississippi, with her two sisters in 1909. She did the murals in the parlor.
Identity
Identity
Blanche McManus is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded as writer, novelist, artist, illustrator and painter. Established in Library of Congress under n89602402. Established in FAST under 1898615. Identity and origins. Her recorded language was English. She married Milburg Francisco Mansfield.
Origins and formation
Origins and formation
Where Blanche McManus came from, and how Blanche McManus was formed. Born on 2 February 1870.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1864–1929
The full dated record · 4 entries
1864
Blanche McManus born at East Feliciana Parish.
1911
The American woman abroad, written and profusely illustrated by Blanche McManus is dated 1911.
1929
Dies at New Orleans.
1929
Blanche McManus died on 19 June 1935.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
East Feliciana Parish.
Birth place
New Orleans.
Death place
Books written/illustrated
Many of these books may have only been cover design illustrations by Blanche McManus. • 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.
Collections
Collections
Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Mcmanus, Blanche, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4924873: Blanche McManus
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Blanche McManus”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1."McManus, Blanche, 1869–1935" . Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress (loc.gov). Retrieved July 22, 2016.
- 2.Kellscraft Studio (kellscraft.com). Blanche McManus (Mansfield). February 17, 2008.
- 3.National Park Service (nps.gov). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form [completed for Hampton Hall].
- 4.Blanche McManus Mansfield Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
scholarly publication
Mcmanus, Blanche, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
Institutional witnessinstitutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q4924873: Blanche McManusWikimedia Foundation
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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