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Men, Women, and Ghosts

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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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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Lindhardt og Ringhof

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8726624982

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9788726624984

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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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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0803243979

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9780803243972

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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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). Phelpsês 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 womenês 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 Phelpsês 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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0803254210

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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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9783732642731

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

The Gates Ajar

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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The Gates Ajar

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and demonstrated that for American women, the war didn't simply end at Appomattox. When Mary Cabot loses her beloved brother, Union soldier Royal, in the war, she feels as though she will never feel peace again until the arrival of her widowed aunt Winifred. Sharing the wisdom that has comforted her through her grief, Winifred offers Mary a groundbreaking view of the afterlife: a place of loving reunion with all those who were lost. As Winifred ministers to Mary, her vision of the afterlife circulates in the community and attracts local adherents who have similarly suffered losses in the war. Written with the intention of illuminating and bettering the lives of women after the war, The Gates Ajar is an empowering manifesto on conquering grief and a timeless manual for optimism.

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0143133918

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9780143133919

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

Doctor Zay

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Doctor Zay

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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1409981614

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The Story of Avis

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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The Story of Avis

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385551056

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9783385551053

Gypsy Breynton

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Gypsy Breynton

By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434467252

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Gender and Jim Crow

Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

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Gender and Jim Crow

Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of white supremacy embodied in the Jim Crow laws of the turn of the century profoundly reordered society and that within this environment, black women crafted an enduring tradition of political activism. According to Gilmore, a generation of educated African American women emerged in the 1890s to become, in effect, diplomats to the white community after the disfranchisement of their husbands, brothers, and fathers. Using the lives of African American women to tell the larger story, Gilmore chronicles black women's political strategies, their feminism, and their efforts to forge political ties with white women. Her analysis highlights the active role played by women of both races in the political process and in the emergence of southern progressivism. In addition, Gilmore illuminates the manipulation of concepts of gender by white supremacists and shows how this rhetoric changed once women, black and white, gained the vote.

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UNC Press Books

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1469612453

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9781469612454

Book's by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Confessions of a Wife

Confessions of a Wife

Beyond the Gates

Beyond the Gates

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A Lost Hero

A Lost Hero

Men, Women, and Ghosts

Men, Women, and Ghosts

The Gates Ajar

The Gates Ajar

The Story of Avis

The Story of Avis

Doctor Zay

Doctor Zay

The Story of Avis

The Story of Avis

Gypsy Breynton

Gypsy Breynton

Gender and Jim Crow

Gender and Jim Crow

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