Caroline Sturgis Tappan

Caroline Sturgis Tappan
BornAugust 30, 1818
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedOctober 20, 1888 (aged 70)
Lenox, Massachusetts
OccupationPoet, artist
Literary movementTranscendentalism
SpouseWilliam Aspinwall Tappan
RelativesEllen Sturgis Hooper (sister)

Caroline Sturgis Tappan (August 30, 1818 – October 20, 1888), commonly known as Caroline Sturgis, or "Cary" Sturgis, was an American Transcendentalist poet and artist.[1][2][3] She is particularly known for her friendships and frequent correspondences with prominent American Transcendentalists, such as Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sturgis published 25 poems in four different volumes of The Dial, a Transcendental periodical. She also wrote and illustrated two books for children, Rainbows for Children (1847) and The Magician’s Show Box, and Other Stories (1856).[4]

  1. ^ Hudspeth, Richard N. (1983). The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. 2. Ithaca: Cornell UP. p. 47.
  2. ^ Lawrence, Kathleen (2004). Bloom, Harold (ed.). "Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism and Its Legacy". Philadelphia: Chelsea House Press. pp. 273–95.
  3. ^ Richardson, Robert D. (November 6, 1995). Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-0520206892.
  4. ^ Myerson, Joel (1980). The New England Transcendentalists and the Dial: A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses.