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Blanche McManus
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| Born | 1869 East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States
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| Died | 1935 |
| Occupation | Illustrator, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Francis Miltoun |
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.
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.
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 | 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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