Carolyn Sturgis Tappan

Carolyn Sturgis Tappan (1818-1888) was an American poet.

Life
A Transcendentalist, Tappan was a friend of Margaret Fuller and a confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Henry James, with whom she correspondended, met her in 1861 in Newport, Connecticut. He described her as a survivor "of that young band of the ardent and uplifted" which had found "its prime inspirer in Emerson and become more familiarly, if a shade less authentically, vocal in Margaret Fuller."