Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2000
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Books in Order: 30 titles

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  • Men. Women. and Ghosts

  • An Old Maid's Paradise


    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Th...

  • Sealed Orders

    "There Miss Phelps' book is justly regarded as one of the best volumes of short stories ever published in this country. The Independent says: ." . . If Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is not the best living writer of short stories, it would be difficult to f...

  • Jack the Fisherman

    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has devoted this "thin memorial volume" to the history of "Jack the Fisherman," which, like most of her tales, is tender and pathetic, and its realism, though terribly tragical, is not offensive. Poor jack is an hereditary dr...

  • The Madonna of the Tubs

    "The Madonna of the Tubs" is a singularly pathetic idyl of a Massachusetts fishing town. The habit of dropping from the cloudland of the ideal to the bare and pitiless world of reality, which seems to please Miss Phelps, though sometimes surprising,...

  • The Gates Ajar

    “The An attractive and powerful picture of a life so chastened and purified by sorrow, so lifted above the trivialities of every-day life, while cheerfully mingling among them, that the veil which separates the mortal from the immortal life seems t...

  • Avery

    "Oh, Pink Mother can't lift you.... I would if I could.... Yes, I know I used to- "Molly, take the baby. Couldn't you amuse him, somehow? Perhaps, if you tried hard, you could keep him still. When he screams so, it seems to hit me-here. It makes it ...

  • Loveliness

    Loveliness sat on an eider-down cushion embroidered with cherry-colored puppies on a pearl satin cover. The puppies had gold eyes. They were drinking a saucer of green milk. Loveliness wore a new necktie, of cherry, a shade or two brighter than the p...

  • The Supply at Saint Agatha's

    At the crossing of the old avenue with the stream of present traffic, in a city which, for obvious reasons, will not be identified by the writer of these pages, there stood-and still stands-the Church of Saint Agatha's. The church is not without a hi...



  • Beyond the Gates


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  • A Lost Hero

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  • Gypsy's Cousin Joy

    The second arithmetic class had just come out to recite, when somebody knocked at the door. Miss Cardrew sent Delia Guest to open it. "It's a-ha, ha letter-he, he for you," said Delia, coming up to the desk. Exactly wherein lay the joke, in the fac...

  • The Tenth of January, a Tale of the Pemberton Mill

    Andover author and feminist, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844 - 1911) was an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets. Inspired by the Lawrence Pemberton Mill Tragedy of 1860, Phelps wrote this story based upon one ...

  • Gypsy Brenton

    Gypsy Brenton is the heroine of this book the first in the Gypsy Brenton Series. Gypsy, as the name indicates, is an impetuous tomboy who lives a chaotic life lacking a system. She is frank, with a forthright, and impulsive but sweet temperament. In...

  • Doctor Zay

    This classic book is Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' 1882 novel, "Doctor Zay" A lawyer from Boston sustains an injury whilst travelling in Maine. He is rescued by an attractive woman who, mush to his disbelief, is a highly competent doctor. As h...

  • The Silent Partner

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • A Chariot of Fire

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • A Chariote of Fire

    Here is an excerpt from the begining of the book:When the White Mountain express to Boston stopped at Beverly, it slowed op reluctantly, crashed off the baggage, and dashed on with the nervousness of a train that is unmercifully and unpardonably lat...

  • Comrades

    The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes cap...



  • Gypsy Breynton

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Come Forth

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Jonathan And David

    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844-January 28, 1911) was an American author best known for three Spiritualist novels, "The Gates Ajar," "Between the Gates" and "Beyond the Gates." She was also an advocate for social reform, temperance, and...

  • Old Maids, And Burglars In Paradise

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Three Spiritualist Novels

    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 th...

  • Burglars in Paradise

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  • Confessions Of A Wife

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    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...

  • The Gates Between

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    If the narrative which I am about to recount perplex the reader, it can hardly do so more than it has perplexed the narrator. Explanations, let me say at the start, I have none to offer. That which took place I relate. I have had no special education...

  • The Man In The Case

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    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...

  • Men, Women, And Ghosts

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    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • The Struggle for Immorality

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has published 30 books.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Men. Women. and Ghosts, was published in October 2019.

The first book by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Three Spiritualist Novels, was published in August 2000.

No. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps does not write books in series.
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