Reviews of Mary Tappan Wright’s Dead Letters, and Other Pieces (2008)

compiled by Brian Kunde

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Reviews from:
| Boston Evening Transcript, 9/25/03 | Current Literature, 10/03 | Philadelphia Record, 9/26/03 |
| Pittsburgh Press, 9/26/03 |

Reviews of:
| An Exception | Dead Letters | Vox | The Mountain | The Iron Woman | the collection |

These contemporary reviews of some of the component stories of Mary Tappan Wright’s Dead Letters, and Other Pieces in their original magazine printings are reproduced complete, with both positive and negative judgments intact, in the order of their original publication. When incorporated in a larger review also encompassing other writers’ works the works of the other writers may be omitted. —BPK, January 6, 2012.

As of the latest update, this page features 4 reviews. —BPK, March 13, 2012.


<— Boston Evening Transcript, September 25, 1903, page 10:
<— The Philadelphia Record, September 26, 1903, page 12:
<— The Pittsburgh Press, September 26, 1903, page 12:

[Note: the following item appeared in all three papers on the date and page indicated. Although the title is not mentioned, the story referred to is “Vox.” —BPK, March 13, 2012.]

HARPERS
MAGAZINE

FOR
OCTOBER

     The October number of Harpers Magazine is a volume of 163 pages of text and pictures — interesting, authoritative, novel.
     There are eight short stories: . . .
     Mary Tappan Wright tells a story of curious psychological interest. . . .


<— Current Literature, October 1903, pages 501-502:

Among the October Magazines.

     . . . [In] the current Harper’s. . . .      Of stories there are many and we cite the most important: . . . Vox, by Mary Tappan Wright; . . .



These reviews were originally published in the journals credited. The works here reproduced are in the public domain. All other material in this edition is ©2012-2013 by Brian Kunde.

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1st web edition posted 1/6/2012.
This page last updated 8/29/2013.

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