Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: 31 books

"A Singular Life" is a novel published in 1895 by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It was the fourth highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. The book was published in a period when Americans were exploring how the teachings of Jesus Christ could be applied to daily life. Several...

"The 2nd book in the Gypsy Brenton Series. Gypsy's Cousin Joy (who she met in the first book) comes to visit. They become good friends but not before Gypsy with her tomboyish ways has to learn some lessons about consideration. Meet the Author Elizabeth Stuart...

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 This book, she deals with domestic...

“O Paradise! O Paradise! The world is growing old. Who would not see that heavenly land, Where love is never cold?”

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.

There were seven of them at the table that day, and they were talking about heredity. At least they were talking about whatever stood for heredity at the date of our history. The word had penetrated to religious circles at the time; but it was still interpreted with a free personal translation.

This 1896 autobiography is by and about a spiritualist, suffragette, antivivisectionist—a woman who married a journalist seventeen years younger and was known for controversial fiction that shattered stereotypes, challenged social convention, and explored the interior lives of women. She tells her...

None at all. Understand that, please, to begin with. That you will at once, and distinctly, recall Dr. Sharpe – and his wife, I make no doubt. Indeed, it is because the history is a familiar one, some of the unfamiliar incidents of which have come into my possession, that I undertake to tell it.

A Civil War veteran, who has outlived all his companions, goes forth alone on Memorial Day to decorate their graves. His wife's devotion makes him realize that the title of comrade belongs to her even more than to the men who fell by his side in the ranks.

Tale of a young lady who discovers the ideas of freedom at an early age.

Joyful tale of a strong-minded young lady who seems to know too much about how to manipulate people.