Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (Author of The Story of Avis)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Born

in Andover, Massachusetts, The United States

August 31, 1844

Died

January 28, 1911

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, was an American author.

She was born at Andover, Massachusetts. 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. Her father Austin Phelps was pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church until 1848, when he accepted a position as the Chair of Rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary and moved the family to Boston.

Ward 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 al ...more

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	The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Carol Phillips (Editor), Alice Johnson (Narrator) 3.52 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1877 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel Over the Right Shoulder; or, The Beginning of a New Year 3.43 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1852 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Charlene Harris (Narrator) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Challenge at Runaway Brook 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1852	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men, Women, and Ghosts 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gypsy Breynton (Gypsy Breynton, #1) by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Mary Fairman Clark (Illustrator) 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1866 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Singular Life 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Gypsy's Cousin Joy (Gypsy Breynton, #2) by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Mary Fairman Clark (Illustrator) 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1866 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comrades by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Howard E. Smith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1911 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Avis

tags: labor, sacrifice, success, woman

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“I shall miss you,' said Perley. 'Of course I shall miss you, Maverick. So should I miss the piano, if it were taken out of the parlor.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner: Including "The Tenth of January"

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“My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.

She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.

("Kentucky's Ghost")”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

tags: cry, crying, cursing, sailing, sailor, ship, weep, weeping, women

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