The complete online text of Men, Women, and Ghosts by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

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 Mary Gray and called Lily by her mother, Elizabeth Wooste...

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 causes, she wrote more than a hundred and fifty stories, t...

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 and gender lines to the frontiers of realistic fiction....