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Mary Tappan Wright
Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist〔“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.〕 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〔''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.〕〔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, Ill., American Publishers' Association, 1914, p. 784.〕〔''Who Was Who in America. Volume 1, 1897-1942''. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1943, p. 1386.〕 and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.〔
==Life and family==
Wright was born Mary Tappan December 14, 1851, in Steubenville, Ohio,〔〔〔〔〔〔〔〔Warner, Charles Dudley, ed. ''Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern''. Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902, p. 619.〕〔Motter, H. L., ed. ''The International Who's Who; Who's Who in the World, 1912'', New York, The International Who's Who Publishing Company, c1911, p. 1121〕〔''Who's Who in New England''. 2nd ed. Chicago : A. N. Marquis & Company, 1916. p. 1186.〕〔''American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day''. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, p. 712.〕 or December 18 of the same year,〔''Lexikon der Frau in zwei Bünden''. Band II, I-Z. Zürich, Encyclios Verlag 1954, p. 1662.〕 the daughter of Eli Todd Tappan, president of Kenyon College, and Lydia (McDowell) Tappan.〔〔〔〔〔〔 She was educated at Auburn Young Ladies' Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.〔 She married, April 2, 1878, John Henry Wright,〔〔〔〔〔〔 then an associate professor of Greek at Dartmouth College and later professor of classical philology and dean of the Collegiate Board of Johns Hopkins University, professor of Greek at Harvard University,〔〔〔"Among the Authors" – article, ''New York Times'', July 14, 1912, p. BR412.〕 and dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The couple had three children, Elizabeth Tappan Wright (who died young), Austin Tappan Wright, and John Kirtland Wright.〔 They lived successively in Hanover, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts,〔〔〔〔〔〔 aside from one period during which John was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, when they resided in Greece.〔 Wright was a founding member of the Boston Authors Club in 1900.〔Flagg, Mildred Buchanan. ''Boston Authors Now and Then; More Members of the Boston Authors Club, 1900-1966''. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dresser, Chapman & Grimes, 1966, p. 255.〕 Her husband died November 25, 1908,〔〔〔 and she herself died August 25, 1916 in Cambridge.〔〔"Death Notices" - article, ''Boston Journal'', August 28, 1916, p. 11.〕 She was survived by her two sons.
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