page_title: Mary Ashley Townsend
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Ashley Townsend
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographic portrait of American writer and poet Mary Ashland Van Voorhis Townsend (1836–1901). From American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, editors. Mast, Crowell &amp; Kirkpatrick, 1897 (revised edition from 1893), vol. 2, p. 720
context_page_description: Mary Ashley Townsend was an American poet and writer.
context_section_description: Mary Ashley Townsend (1836 – June 7, 1901) was an American poet and writer.
caption: Mary Ashley Townsend, circa 1897
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