SOURCE: “Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Professional Women and Traditional Wedlock,” in Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90, University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp. 148-80.
In the following essay, Tracey explores the duality of Phelps's female characters as both radical career women and conventional marriage partners.
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