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The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer
Kelly's book offers the first comprehensive study of the role of feminism in Phelps' life and work. It explores feminist elements in her religious works and magazine articles, the depiction of women in her novels and short stories, her views about women and marriage, and her place in American literature.
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 se...
Chapters from a Life: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Author and feminist, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911) was an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets. This memoir originally published in 1896 and serialized, recounts anecdotes from her life in Massachusetts towns of Andover, Gloucester, Newton, and elsewhere. Over her long life she was friendly with: Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lydia Marie Childs, Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911
This work examines the novels, essays, and short stories of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps within their cultural/historical context. It examines the social climate and reform movements during Phelps' writing career, and shows how she was a woman ahead of her time in the 19th century.
A Singular Life
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Singular Life" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
What to Wear?
Six essays exploring social, moral, economic, and gender issues surrounding women's clothing.
Chapters from a Life
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The story of Avis
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