Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Standard Name: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
Birth Name: Mary Gray Phelps
Nickname: Lily
Self-constructed Name: Elizabeth Stuart
Pseudonym: Mary Adams
Married Name: Mary Gray Ward
In a prolific output filling the latter part of the nineteenth century, United States author
explored a range of interests in her more than fifty fiction and non-fiction books and hundreds of magazine stories, essays, plays, and poems—on topics ranging from women's rights, antivivisection, and temperance, to religion, homeopathy, and the afterlife. In recent years, literary scholars have re-examined and illuminated her consistent and persistent efforts to challenge female stereotypes and to advance the role of women, mainly through her fiction writing.Timeline
Texts
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. “A Sacrifice Consumed”. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol.
28
, pp. 235-40. Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. A Singular Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1895.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Austin Phelps: A Memoir. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1891.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Beyond the Gates. Houghton, Mifflin, 1883.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1896.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Hedged In. Fields, Osgood, 1870.
Kessler, Carol Farley, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. “Introduction”. The Story of Avis, edited by Carol Farley Kessler and Carol Farley Kessler, Rutgers University Press, 1985, p. xiii - xxxii.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Men, Women, and Ghosts. Fields, Osgood, 1869.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Sealed Orders. Houghton, Osgood, 1879.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Gates Ajar. Fields, Osgood, 1868.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Gates Between. Houghton, Mifflin, 1887.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Silent Partner. James R. Osgood, 1871.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Story of Avis. James R. Osgood, 1877.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Story of Avis. Editor Kessler, Carol Farley, Rutgers University Press, 1985.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Supply at St Agatha’s. Boston, MA, 1896.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. “The Tenth of January”. Atlantic Monthly.