Marie Townsend

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. 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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