Mary Tappan Wright | |
|---|---|
 Wright, c. 1894 | |
| Born | Mary Tappan December 14, 1851 Steubenville, Ohio |
| Died | August 25, 1916 (aged 64) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1887–1912 |
| Notable works | Aliens (1902) |
Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist[1][2] and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright[3][4][5][6][7] and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.[5]
- ^ "Wright, Mary Tappan" in The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. New York, The Encyclopedia American Corporation, v. 29, 1920, p. 570.
- ^ Wallace, W. Stewart. A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951, p. 520.
- ^ Who's Who in America, a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States, 1903–1905. Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1903, p. 1658.
- ^ Adams, Oscar Fay. A Dictionary of American Authors. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904, p. 438.
- ^ a b Leonard, John William, ed. Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914–1915, New York, The American Commonwealth Company, c1914, p. 907.
- ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. Chicago, American Publishers' Association, 1914, p. 784.
- ^ Who Was Who in America. Volume 1, 1897–1942. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1943, p. 1386.