While her education at Abbot Academy
and Mrs Edwards
'School for Young Ladies
was parallel to that offered to boys (with the significant exceptions of Greek and trigonometry), growing up in a conservative university...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
ESP
's father, Austin Phelps
, was the son of a revivalist preacher and later became a clergyman in Boston. Uncomfortable with his pastorate, he assumed the position of professor of theology at Andover Theological Seminary