Under his influence she produced articles for the religious magazine that he edited, using the pseudonym H. Trusta (an anagram of Stuart), which she used for all her subsequent writings that were not published anonymously.
In September 1842 Elizabeth Stuart married Austin Phelps, a Calvinist clergyman who was much like her father. The Phelpses settled in Boston, where he was pastor of the Pine Street Church. As a pastor's wife she became immersed in the religious and social concerns of the church. Her years in Boston are said to have been among her happiest. She gave birth to two children in Boston: Mary Gray (born in 1844) and Moses Stuart (born in 1849). Her daughter became the subject of Phelps's Little Mary; or, Talks and Tales for Children, published posthumously in 1854. The book is a record of the child-rearing practices she used successfully with Mary and is an effort to demonstrate how parents can inculcate religious, social, and ethical values in their children.
In 1850, when Austin Phelps was appointed professor of rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary, the family moved back to Andover, an environment Elizabeth knew well.
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