Elizabeth Stuart: 50 books

For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven...

"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 Gates Ajar is an 1868 religious novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (later Elizabeth Phelps Ward) that was immensely popular following its publication. It was the second best-selling religious novel of the 19th century. 80,000 copies were sold in America by 1900; 100,000 were sold in England during...

"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.

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National...

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.