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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred thousand copies, making it one of the best-selling American works of the nineteenth century. Through the next four decades Phelps published hundreds of essays, tales, and poems, which appeared in every major American periodical, while also writing novels, including Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887). Phelps’s legacy as an important American writer, however, has been hurt by the seeming contradictions between her life and work. For example, she was an ardent advocate for women’s rights both inside and outside marriage, but her stories seem to glorify the sort of extreme self-sacrifice associated with the most conservative domestic ideology. In this collection, the editors seek to restore Phelps’s reputation by bringing together a diverse collection from the entire body of her lifetime of work. From arguments for suffrage to harrowing tales of Reconstruction, these essays, along with short fiction and poetry, provide a new perspective on a major American writer from the later nineteenth century.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803254229

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9780803254220

The Silent Partner

By: Elizabeth Stuary Phelps

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The Silent Partner

By: Elizabeth Stuary Phelps

After her father suddenly passes away, Perley Kelso is left partial ownership of a mill. However, since it was socially unacceptable for a woman to own property or have a company, Perley is kept as a silent partner. Conflicted about her role in the company, Perley struggles to find her own ambition. Despite her limited responsibilities at the mill, Perley is curious about the daily operations, so she decides to visit the mill. There, she meets Sip, a worker. Coming from opposite backgrounds and different classes, the two women initially doubt they have anything in common. But as they unite and grow closer together, Sip and Perley realize that they have similar goals, and are dedicated to helping the other achieve them. After Sip shares her perspective on the dangers and unjust working conditions of the mill workers, Perley becomes devoted to reform, earning the trust of the workers as she treats them with compassion. Though, even as each woman finds her aspiration, the societal standard requires something different from them. When Perley and Sip both receive marriage proposals, the two friends consider how marriage would affect their lives, and the consequences that would ensue if they decline the offers. Featuring topics of women’s right to work, industrialization, and domestic life, The Silent Partner by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is clever and invites critical reflection. Through the realistic portrayal of 19th century working class, Phelps’ provides modern day readers with an intimate perspective on American Industrialization and the sexism ingrained in societal norms. With compelling characters and bold drama, The Silent Partner remains to be both thrilling and insightful, upholding Phelps’ legacy of advocacy and literary genius. This edition of The Silent Partner by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps features an eye-catching new cover design and is presented in a font that is both modern and readable. With these accommodations, this edition is accessible and appealing to contemporary audiences, restoring The Silent Partner to modern standards while preserving the original intelligence and impact of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ work.

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122

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Graphic Arts Books

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1513284932

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9781513284934

Men, Women, and Ghosts

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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Men, Women, and Ghosts

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Men, Women, and Ghosts" is a short story collection by Elizabeth Phelps that deals with primarily the supernatural but also a whole host of topics never publicly addressed at the time. Apart from a few stories such as ‘The Day of My Death’, the ghosts here aren’t the stereotypical clanking chains and wailing type, they’re beleaguered, frustrated souls who have suffered great hardship. "One of the Elect" reads like a changeling story, but gradually becomes a tale dealing with sentimentality and the pains of prostitution. One of the strongest tales is ‘Kentucky’s Ghost’, an old sailors tale of bullying and revenge at sea combined with a compelling and gripping narrative. Elizabeth Stuarts Phelps Ward (1844-1911) was one of the first feminist, American writers of the 19th century who vehemently opposed the traditional view of women in society. Much of her views are expressed in her novels, targeting the oppressive contemporary view of marriage and the family unit. Even her marriage to Herbert Ward, a journalist seventeen years her junior, was another act of rebellion against the status-quo. Her novels are primarily focused on the topics of religion and equality, mixing spiritualist themes with poignant social issues. She was a prolific author of more than 50 volumes of fiction, essays, and poetry. Phelps’ most popular works include "The Gates Ajar", "Trixy", "Men, Women, and Ghosts", and "The Silent Partner".

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255

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Lindhardt og Ringhof

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8726624982

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9788726624984

Trixy

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Trixy

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The book decries the then common practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals. In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early animal rights movement in Phelps’s influential campaign to introduce legislation to regulate or end this practice. Phelps not only presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but argues that training young doctors in it makes them bad physicians. Emily E. VanDette’s introduction demonstrates that Phelps’s protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays, and speeches, was well ahead of its time. Though not well known today, Phelps’s 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar, which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers traumatized by the Civil War, was the century’s second best-selling American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Recently scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps’s significance. As contemporary authors, including Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna J. Haraway, Gary L. Francione, and Carol J. Adams, have extended her vision, they have also created new audiences for her work.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810140446

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9780810140448

Confessions of a Wife

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Confessions of a Wife

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (1844-1911) was an American author. In most of her writings she used her mother's name "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" as a pseudonym, both before and after her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist seventeen years younger. She also used the pseudonym Mary Adams. She wrote three Spiritualist novels, The Gates Ajar, Between the Gates and Beyond the Gates, and a novella about animal rights, Loveliness. While writing other popular stories, she was also a great advocate, by lecturing and otherwise, for social reform, temperance, and the emancipation of women. She and her husband co-authored two Biblical romances in 1890 and 1891. Her autobiography, Chapters From a Life was published in 1896 after being serialized in McClure's. She also wrote a large number of essays for Harper's.

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1409961966

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9781409961963

Beyond the Gates

By: E. Stuart Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,LIGHTNING SOURCE INC

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Beyond the Gates

By: E. Stuart Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,LIGHTNING SOURCE INC

This is the nineteenth volume of the 'Clydesdale Stud-Book', issued in 1897. This text will be of much value to those with a keen interest in 'The Clydesdale Horse Society', and to collectors of such antiquarian literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Preface', 'Additional Produce', 'Mares with Produce Nos. 12698-12997', 'Stallions Nos. 10148-10301', 'Corrections and Changes in Ownership', 'District Stallions', 'Premium Winners', 'Obituary', 'Roll of Members', 'Breeders and Owners', 'Mares', and 'Horses'. This text was originally published in 1897, and is proudly republished now complete with a new introduction on horse breeding and anatomy.

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1406721123

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9781406721126

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

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0803254229

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9780803254220

The Story of Avis

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,Carol Farley Kessler

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The Story of Avis

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,Carol Farley Kessler

One of the most prolific and popular American writers of her time, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is, nearly a century later, once more coming to be considered a major author. The Story of Avis, her most ambitious and successful novel, has long been out of print and will prove a revelation to modern readers. Avis is the story of a larger-than-life heroine, a promising artist, who against her better judgment is persuaded by her lover, Philip Ostrander--a "new man"--to marry. The failure of their modern marriage, and in due course of Avis's career, is inevitable. Phelps depicts the turmoil of her characters' inner lives with great sensitivity and with a skill that is striking. A feminist who clearly saw the constraints of traditional gender roles upon women and men, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was ahead of her own time in post-Civil War America. She remains highly readable today. "The Story of Avis (1877) will shock any reader who still thinks nineteenth-century American women's fiction is sentimental and pious. This novel is angry, not sentimental; iconoclastic, not pious; it concerns a talented and dedicated painter whose marriage destroys her genius."--Choice "This ornately articulate novel is playful; both kind and hopeful in its vision of the female conundrum. . . . I had intended to speed read it]. I ready every word."--Joyce Bright, Belles Lettres

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Rutgers University Press

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0813510996

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9780813510996

Men, Women, and Ghosts

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Men, Women, and Ghosts

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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1409961990

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9781409961994

A Lost Hero

By: Phelps Ward Elizabeth Stuart

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A Lost Hero

By: Phelps Ward Elizabeth Stuart

Reproduction of the original: A Lost Hero by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Herbert D. Ward

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3732642739

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Poetic Studies

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Poetic Studies

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385258227

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Three Spiritualist Novels

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Three Spiritualist Novels

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

This volume brings together for the first time three novels that illustrate the distinguished American writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's enduring interest in the afterlife. The daughter of a Calvinist minister, Phelps could not reconcile herself to the idea of a heaven full of spirits who had cut their ties to those left behind on Earth. Rather, she became convinced of the viability of the Spiritualist view that a vital link to earthly life continues in the hereafter. Articulating an alternative to conservative church doctrine, Phelps assured her readers--many of them women bereft of their loved ones by the Civil War--that Spiritualist ideas about the afterlife were not fundamentally at odds with Scripture. Like the protagonist of The Gates Ajar, these readers wanted to believe "something actual, something pleasant" about the world to come, not "glittering generalities" about a "dreadful Heaven" where their loved ones were too busy singing and worshiping to have any thought of those left behind. All three of the novels collected here--The Gates Ajar (1868), Beyond the Gates (1883), and The Gates Between (1887)--describe heaven as a perfected version of earthly life and the afterlife as a chance to make up for opportunities squandered on Earth. A grieving sister finds consolation in the Spiritualist idea of a continued connection with her beloved brother; a dying woman finds her soulmate in the afterlife; an erring husband makes amends across the line between the living and the dead. Tremendously popular in Phelps's lifetime, these novels offer a way of reconciling human beings to earthly loss and sorrow, assuring readers of an afterlife both restorative and compensatory. They also provide an intriguing look at a phenomenon that preoccupied nineteenth-century America and continues to fascinate us in the twenty-first century.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069072

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9780252069079

Book's by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Silent Partner

The Silent Partner

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Trixy

Trixy

Confessions of a Wife

Confessions of a Wife

Beyond the Gates

Beyond the Gates

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Story of Avis

The Story of Avis

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts

A Lost Hero

A Lost Hero

Poetic Studies

Poetic Studies

Three Spiritualist Novels

Three Spiritualist Novels

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