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Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard

b. 1870

A writer of early 20th-century children’s fiction, she is best remembered for lively stories that blend adventure, travel, and everyday feeling. Her work includes patriotic novels for young readers as well as the animal tale Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon.

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Chico, the story of a homing pigeon

Chico, the story of a homing pigeon

by Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard

About the author

Born in Boston in March 1869, Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard was an American author whose books were published in the 1910s and 1920s. Library and archive records connect her with titles including Carita, and How She Became a Patriotic American (1918) and Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon (1922).

Several biographical sources also describe her as a teacher of Latin and Greek at Belmont College. Some records list her birth year as 1869, while others catalog her as 1870, so the exact year is not completely consistent across sources.

Her surviving work suggests a writer interested in young readers, clear storytelling, and themes of character, loyalty, and national identity. Though she is not widely known today, her books remain accessible through major public-domain and library collections.