Eva March Tappan (December 26, 1854 – January 29, 1930) was a teacher and American

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born in

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, the only child of Reverend Edmund March Tappan and Lucretia Logée. Eva graduated from

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in 1875. She was a member of

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and an editor of the ''Vassar Miscellany''. After leaving Vassar she began teaching at

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where she taught Latin and German from 1875 until 1880. From 1884–94 she was the Associate Principal at the Raymond Academy in

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. She received graduate degrees in English Literature from the

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. Tappan was the head of the English department at the English High School at

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. She began her literary career writing about famous characters in history and developed an interest in writing children books. Tappan never married.

Principal works

* ''Adventures & Achievements.'' 1900
''Poems & Rhymes.'' 1900
* ''In the Days of Alfred the Great.'' 1900 * ''Stories from Seven Old Favourites.'' 1900
''In the Days of William the Conqueror.'' 1901
* ''England's story; a history for grammar and high schools.'' 1901
''In the Days of Queen Elizabeth.'' 1902
* ''Robin Hood, : His Book.'' 1903 * ''A Short History of England's Literature.'' 1905 * ''American Hero Stories.'' 1906 * ''A Short History of America's Literature.'' 1907
''The Out-Of-Door Book.'' 1907
* ''The Chaucer Story Book.'' 1908 * ''The Story of the Greek People.'' 1908 * ''Old World Hero Stories, or European Hero Stories.'' 1909 * ''The Story of the Roman People''. 1910. * ''Dixie Kitten.'' 1910 * ''An Old, Old Storybook: Compiled from the Old Testament.'' (Editor) 1910 * ''When Knights Were Bold.'' 1911 * ''An Elementary History of Our Country.'' 1914 * ''Heroes of the Middle Ages: Alaric to Columbus.'' 1914 * ''The Little Book of the Flag.'' 1917
''The Little Book of the War. '' 1918
* ''Hero Stories of France.'' 1920 * ''Heroes of Progress; Stories of Successful Americans.'' 1921

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Bibliography

*Yesterday’s Classics, LLC.
Eva March TappanThe Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project
Accessed September 10, 2008 * Online Books Page, Works by Eva March Tappa
Online Books Page
Accessed December 14, 2017

External links

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works by Eva March Tappanbiblio.com
Accessed September 14, 2008

Digitized works by Eva March Tappan
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