Marie Townsend

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Mary Mansfield Townsend Allen (July 16, 1851 – July 2, 1912)[1] was an American author and composer[2][3][4][5] who published her works under the names Marie Townsend[6] and Mansfield Townsend.[7][8]

Townsend was born in Canton, Pennsylvania, to Mary Ann Sharpe and Herman Townsend. She married William LeBaron Gibbs Allen on November 2, 1869, in Kidder, Missouri.[1]

Townsend's publications[9] include:

Opera

Plays

  • Bobs and Nabobs: A Domestic Drama in Four Acts[13]
  • Ceramics, a Summer Idyll: An Original Comedy in Five Acts[14]

Songs

References

  1. ^ a b Allen, Mary Mansfield Townsend. "ancestry.com". Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. ^ Neumann, Erich Peter (1979). Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-21410-3.
  4. ^ The Musical Mainstream. The Service. 1979.
  5. ^ Brüchle, Bernhard (1970). Horn Bibliographie. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen. ISBN 3-7959-0025-5. OCLC 271548.
  6. ^ Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
  7. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ Drone, Jeanette Marie (2007). Musical AKAs : assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music. Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-8108-5739-1. OCLC 62858081.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Ebel, Otto (2009). Women Composers: a biographical handbook of woman's work in music. Breinigsville, Pa: Kessinger Publ. ISBN 978-0-548-80352-3. OCLC 838042094.
  10. ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  11. ^ Kirk, Elise Kuhl (2001). American Opera. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02623-2.
  12. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1918). Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
  13. ^ Sutro, Florence Edith Clinton (1895). Women in music and law. New York. hdl:2027/nnc1.0023976950.
  14. ^ "Marie Townsend Allen". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  15. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  16. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Note: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc. p. 31.
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