Blanche McManus

Born1869

East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States

Died1935 (aged 65–66)

OccupationsIllustrator, writer

Blanche McManus
Born	1869 (1869) East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States
Died	1935 (aged 65–66)
Occupations	Illustrator, writer
Spouse	Francis Miltoun

Blanche McManus (1869–1935)^[1] 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.

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
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.

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