Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's career exemplifies the range of interests and achievements of nineteenth-century women writers. An acknowledged voice for woman's rights, antivivisection, and temperance caus...
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During her thirty-seven years Elizabeth Stuart Phelps combined a literary career with the roles of mother, homemaker, and minister's wife. Her place in American literary history traverses religious an...
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The central metaphor for understanding the life and work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps may be that she was born twice. The first time was in Boston, Massachusetts, on 31 August 1844. She was baptized Mar...
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In the following essay, Vedder presents an overview of Phelps's major works.
Lord Byron once said, in describing the sudden fame that came to him from the publication of the first part of &#...
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In the following essay, Tracey explores the duality of Phelps's female characters as both radical career women and conventional marriage partners.
A declared reformer and advocate for women&...
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In the following essay, Kessler explores images of women in Phelps's late fiction.
The final seven of twenty-five novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps are the work of a tired woman and lack the...
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In the following essay, Kessler suggests that Phelps creates an ambivalent utopia in her novels dealing with the afterlife.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, for those not familiar with her, lived from 1844...
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In the following essay, Fetterley explores the phenomenon of inarticulateness of women in The Silent Partner.
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Even before I was consciously feminist, I found Ben Jonson's Epicoene offensiv...
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In the following essay, Morris argues that the elements of erotic fantasy in Doctor Zay are intended to teach readers to respect professional women.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was best kno...
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In the following essay, Wilson explores the ways in which The Story of Avis is a multi-textual early feminist story.
Over the last two decades Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of Avis has ...
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In the following essay, Lang uses The Silent Partner to examine the difficulty for nineteenth-century writers to discuss class and gender issues.
When literature was a thing apart and organic whole...
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In the following essay, Gehrman examines Phelps's interpretation of the myth of the Lady of Shalott and its embodiment of Victorian womanhood.
The Lady of Shalott was a central icon of the n...
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In the following essay, Barker argues that The Story of Avis is Phelps's feminist revision of Nathaniel Hawthorne's representation of the woman artist in his The Marble Faun.
In the l...
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Critical Essay by Henry C. Vedder
