Eva March Tappan was a teacher and American

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 born in Blackstone, Massachusetts

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

Vassar College

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 in 1875. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an editor of the Vassar Miscellany. After leaving Vassar she began teaching at Wheaton College

Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

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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 Camden, New Jersey

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. She received graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania

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

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 at Worcester, Massachusetts

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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
• European Hero Stories. 1909
• 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
• Hero Stories of France. 1920
• Heroes of Progress; Stories of Successful Americans. 1921

External links

• works by Eva March Tappan http://www.biblio.com Accessed September 14, 2008
• Eva March Tappan papers