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]