Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough Explained
Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough (1872 – 5 June 1951) was an American poet and painter.[2]
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.[3] She was a member of the Art Students League of Washington.[3] She wrote and illustrated her book Lyrics of Love and Nature, published in 1895.[4] [5] [6] In 1897 she married the U.S. senator Henry C. Hansbrough.[7] The same year, she published the work of fiction A Fashionable Hero in Harper's Magazine.[8] In 1906 she published a 153 page volume titled Poems by MBCH.[9]
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.[10] She was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.[11]
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[12] and the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.[13]
Notes and References
- Web site: Deaths . chroniclingamerica.loc.gov . The Evening Star, Washington D.C..
- Web site: Mery Berri Chapman Hansbrough DC Writers' Homes . DC Writers’ Homes . 24 November 2018.
- Book: The Midland Monthly Magazine . 1898 . J. Birgham . en.
- Book: Current Literature . 1896 . Current Literature Publishing Company . en.
- Book: Congress . Library of . Subcommittee . American Library Association Committee on Resources of American Libraries National Union Catalog . The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries . 1972 . Mansell . 978-0-7201-0003-7 . en.
- Book: Stedman . Edmund Clarence . An American Anthology, 1787-1899: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century . 1900 . Houghton, Mifflin . en.
- Book: Schlup . Leonard C. . Blochowiak . Mary Ann . Henry C. Hansbrough: Political Maverick of the Northern Plains . 2007 . Midwest Press Incorporated . 978-0-9646524-7-7 . en.
- Web site: [Fiction] A fashionable hero, By Mary Berri Chapman ]. Harper's Magazine . en . 1 August 1897.
- Web site: Hansbrough . Mary Berri Chapman . Poems . [New York, Knickerbocker Press |date=1906].
- Book: Roberts . Kim . By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's Capital . 6 October 2020 . University of Virginia Press . 978-0-8139-4476-0 . en.
- Web site: 2018-11-24 . Mery Berri Chapman Hansbrough DC Writers' Homes . 2022-05-03 . DC Writers’ Homes . en-US.
- Web site: Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
- Web site: Landscape . collection.readingpublicmuseum.org . en.
