Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough | |
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Born | 1872 (1872) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Died | June 5, 1951(1951-06-05) (aged 78–79) |
Resting place | Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Spouse | Henry C. Hansbrough |
Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough (1872 – 5 June 1951) was an American poet and painter.
Biography
She was born Mary Berri Chapman in Washington, D.C. to parents Charles Chapman of New Haven and Etta S. Chapman, a patent examiner. She was a member of the Art Students League of Washington. She wrote and illustrated her book Lyrics of Love and Nature, published in 1895. In 1897 she married the U.S. senator Henry C. Hansbrough. The same year, she published the work of fiction A Fashionable Hero in Harper's Magazine. In 1906 she published a 153 page volume titled Poems by MBCH.
She spent the last 42 years of her life, from 1909 to 1951, as a resident of St. Elizabeths Hospital, a mental health institution in Washington D.C. She was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
References
- "Deaths" (PDF). chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The Evening Star, Washington D.C.
- "Mery Berri Chapman Hansbrough | DC Writers' Homes". DC Writers’ Homes. 24 November 2018.
- ^ The Midland Monthly Magazine. J. Birgham. 1898.
- Current Literature. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1896.
- Congress, Library of; Subcommittee, American Library Association Committee on Resources of American Libraries National Union Catalog (1972). The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries. Mansell. ISBN 978-0-7201-0003-7.
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1900). An American Anthology, 1787-1899: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Houghton, Mifflin.
- Schlup, Leonard C.; Blochowiak, Mary Ann (2007). Henry C. Hansbrough: Political Maverick of the Northern Plains. Midwest Press Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-9646524-7-7.
- "[Fiction] A fashionable hero, By Mary Berri Chapman". Harper's Magazine. 1 August 1897.
- Hansbrough, Mary Berri Chapman (1906). "Poems". [New York, Knickerbocker Press.
- Roberts, Kim (6 October 2020). By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's Capital. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-4476-0.
- "Mery Berri Chapman Hansbrough | DC Writers' Homes". DC Writers’ Homes. 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
- "Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- "Landscape". collection.readingpublicmuseum.org.
- 1872 births
- 1951 deaths
- 19th-century American women painters
- 19th-century American painters
- 19th-century American poets
- 19th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American women painters
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American women writers
- Poets from Washington, D.C.
- Painters from Washington, D.C.
- American women poets
- Burials at Rock Creek Cemetery