Frances W. Delehanty

[3] Delehanty attended the Academy of the Visitation, a Roman Catholic girls' school in Brooklyn, New York.

[4] As a young woman she traveled in Europe with photographer Gertrude Käsebier and her daughter Hermine.

In 1915, Vanity Fair called her "the Queen of the Benedict Art-Village and absolute ruler of the Dutch Oven outdoor cafe", in an illustrated story about artists in Washington Square Park.

She illustrated the books The Works of Jesus (1909) by Edna S. Little, Love in a Dutch Garden (1914) by Neith Boyce, More Fairytale Plays (1917) by Marguerite Merington, Gertrude Crownfield's Heralds of the King (1931), and Justine Ward's Sunday Mass (1932).

The founding of the abbey was the inspiration for a film, Come to the Stable (1949), written by Clare Booth Luce and starring Loretta Young and Celeste Holm; Elsa Lanchester played the eccentric, artistic, religious landowner character "Amelia Potts" (taking the place of both Ford and Delehanty).

Gertrude Kasebier, "The Manger" (1899); Frances Delehanty is the model in this image
Edward Steichen , Frances Delehanty, Charlotte Smith (Paddock), and Hermine Käsebier (Turner) at Voulangis, France, posed in the spirit of the French Impressionists, photographed by Gertrude Käsebier (1901), from the Library of Congress
Delehanty illustrations for Neith Boyce's "Love in a Dutch Garden" ( Harper's Weekly 1914)