Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (August 31, 1844-January 28, 1911) was an American author. She was born at Andover, Massachusetts, and married Herbert Dickinson Ward, in 1888. In most of her writings she used her mother's name "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" as a pseudonym, both before and after her marriage. She also used the pseudonym, Mary Adams.

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 also a great advocate, by lecturing and otherwise, for social reform, temperance, and the emancipation of women.

Ward's mother, Elizabeth (Wooster) Stuart Phelps, (August 13, 1815—November 30, 1852) wrote the Kitty Brown books under the pen name H. Trusta.

[edit] Works

• Ellen's Idol (1864)
• Mercy Gliddon's Work (1866)
• The Gates Ajar (1868)
• Men, Women, and Ghosts (1869)
• Hedged In (1870)
• The Silent Partner (1871)
• Poetic Studies (1875)
• The Story of Avis (1877)
• An Old Maid's Paradise (1879)
• Doctor Zay (1882)
• Beyond the Gates (1883)
• Songs of the Silent World (1884)
• Jack the Fisherman (1887)
• The Gates Between (1887)
• The struggle for Immortality (1889)
• with her husband, Come Forth (1891)
• A Singular Life (1895)
• The Story of Jesus Christ (1897)
• The Supply at Saint Agetha's (1897)
• Within the Gates (1901)
• Trixy (1904)
• Walled In (1907)
• The Whole Family (collaborative novel with eleven other authors, 1908)
• The Empty House and Other Stories (1910)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

[edit] External links

• Works by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward at Project Gutenberg
• http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/ph.htm
• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/authors-P.html