Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

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Bronze relief portrait of Mariana Griswold by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Bronze relief portrait of Mariana Griswold by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (21 February 1851 - 20 January 1934), usually known as Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, was an American author, born in New York City. She was married in 1873, was at one time president of the Public Education Association of New York, and was elected an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In 1910, she received the degree of D. Litt. from Columbia University, the accomplishment being an extraordinary one for a woman at that time. Her writings include:

  • Henry Hobson Richardson and his Works (1888)
  • English Cathedrals (1892; fourth edition, 1892)
  • Art out of Doors (1893)
  • Should We Ask for the Suffrage? (1894)
  • One Man Who was Content (1896)
  • Niagara, a Description (1901)
  • History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century (1909)
  • Poems (1910)
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