The Works of Mary Tappan Wright Online

“As novelists go she is one among ten thousand.” —New York Times, April 30, 1904.

The purpose of this site is to preserve and disseminate the works of Mary Tappan Wright, a fine but neglected author from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries who is only remembered today as the mother of Utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright. A keen observer of the human condition, mankind’s mores and behavior, and both the natural and constructed world in which these play out, her work both reflects her era and transcends it.
Through my small publication house Fleabonnet Press I have gathered and reissued Wright’s short works, most of which had never seen print in book form, in a series of new print and electronic collections. The e-versions have been made available on this site free of charge. Links to other existing online versions of her short works and novels are also provided. By one or the other of these methods, access has been provided here to the complete body of her known published works. Some early works of Austin Tappan Wright are available here as well.
Special thanks to Russ Bernard for the cover images of Aliens and The Test.

—Brian Kunde.

Mary Tappan Wright - the Facts and the FAQ

The Facts
biography, writing career, bibliography
The FAQ
under construction

Mary Tappan Wright - the Novels


	*Aliens* (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, Mar. 1902, 424 pp.) - pdf of original edition on Google Books - summary - reviews - notes

	*The Test* (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, Feb. 1904, 360 pp.) - pdf of original edition on Google Books - summary - reviews - notes

	*The Tower* (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, Apr. 1906, 422 pp.) - pdf of original edition on Google Books - summary - reviews - notes

	*The Charioteers* (New York : D. Appleton & Company, May 1912, 345 pp.) - pdf of original edition on Google Books - summary - reviews - notes

Mary Tappan Wright - the Collected Short Works


	Volume 1. A Truce, and Other Stories (New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, Jun. 1895, 287 pp.) Early stories from Scribner’s Magazine, 1890-1894. - no online edition of original edition known - html edition from Fleabonnet Press (Nov. 2008) - summaries - reviews - notes
	Contents (with links to texts at Fleabonnet, Google Books, and Making of America): F \| G \| M - “A Truce” (Jan. 1891) F \| G \| M - “As Haggards of the Rock” (May 1890) F \| G \| M - “A Portion of the Tempest” (Jun. 1894) F \| G \| M - “From Macedonia” (Oct. 1894) F \| G \| M - “Deep as First Love” (Feb. 1894) F \| G \| M - “A Fragment of a Play, With a Chorus” (May 1891)

	Volume 2. Beginning Alone, and Other Stories (Mountain House, CA : Fleabonnet Press, Jun. 2008, 83 pp.) Early stories from The Youth’s Companion, Christian Union, and The Outlook, 1890-1895. - html edition from Fleabonnet Press (Jul. 2008) - illustrations - summaries - reviews - notes
	Contents (with links to texts at Fleabonnet, Google Books, and Making of America): F \| G \| M - “A Lad—Dismissed” (Jul.-Aug. 1893) F \| G \| M - “Divided Allegiances” (Feb. 1892) F \| G \| M - “Three Fires at Redmont” (Jun. 1895) F \| G \| M - “The Gray Fur Rug” (Nov. 1893) F \| G \| M - “His Last” (Jun. 1894) F \| G \| M - “Beginning Alone” (Sep.-Oct. 1890)

	Volume 3. Pro Tempore, and Other Stories (Mountain House, CA : Fleabonnet Press, Dec. 2007, 64 pp.) Late stories from Scribner’s Magazine, 1896-1909. - html edition from Fleabonnet Press (Jan. 2008) - summaries - reviews - notes
	Contents (with links to texts at Fleabonnet, Google Books, and Making of America): F \| G \| M - “A Day Together” (Jan. 1901) F \| G \| M - “The Key of the Fields” (Feb. 1898) F \| G \| M - “A Sacred Concert” (Jul. 1903) F \| G \| M - “Pro Tempore” (Jun. 1906) F \| G \| M - “Cunliffe” (Sep. 1896) F \| G \| M - “Asphodel” (Oct. 1909)

	Volume 4. Dead Letters, and Other Pieces (Mountain House, CA : Fleabonnet Press, Mar. 2008, 70 pp.) Late stories from The Independent and the Harper’s magazines, 1899-1907, and miscellanea, 1911-1915. - html edition from Fleabonnet Press (Apr. 2008) - illustrations - summaries - reviews - notes
	Contents (with links to texts at Fleabonnet, Google Books, and Making of America): F \| G \| M - “An Exception” (Jan. 1899) F \| G \| M - “Dead Letters” (Sep. 1901) F \| G \| M - “Vox” (Oct. 1903) F \| G \| M - “The Mountain” (Feb. 1907) F \| G \| M - “The Iron Woman” (book review) (Dec. 1911) F \| G \| M - “1915?” (short story by Austin Tappan Wright) (Apr. 1915)

Volume 5. Uncollected Works = The Holidays : short stories (Stanford, CA : Fleabonnet Press, Aug. 2008 and after.) Works uncovered too late to include in the previous collections, initially released exclusively on the internet. The html edition (Uncollected Works) includes works by both Mary Tappan Wright and Austin Tappan Wright; the print edition (The Holidays) omits the material by ATW.

- html edition from Fleabonnet Press (Aug. 2008)

- illustrations - summaries - reviews - notes

Contents (with links to texts at Fleabonnet, Google Books, and Making of America):

F | G | M - “How They Cured Him” (Mar. 1887)
F | G | M - “Alice’s Christmas” (Dec. 1889)
F | G | M - “Numbered With Thy Saints” (Apr. 1890)
F | G | M - “Ethel’s Christmas Brother” (Jan. 1900)
F | G | M - “Children and Books” (Mar. 1900)
F | G | M - “The Voyagers” (poem by Austin Tappan Wright) (1906)
F | G | M - “George Meredith” (letter by Austin Tappan Wright) (1909)

Auxiliary Material
(Illustrations, Summaries, Reviews and Notes)

Under construction.

- | S | R | N - A Truce, and Other Stories
- | S | R | N - Aliens
- | S | R | N - The Test
- | S | R | N - The Tower
- | S | R | N - The Charioteers
I | S | R | N - Beginning Alone, and Other Stories
- | S | R | N - Pro Tempore, and Other Stories
I | S | R | N - Dead Letters, and Other Pieces
I | S | R | N - Uncollected Works / The Holidays

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The Works of Mary Tappan Wright Online

1st web edition posted 2/19/2008.
(updated 3/12/2012).