# 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.

## 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.

## Collections

Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

## 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. |