Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Cheryl Tevlin, Elizabeth Duquette

The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred thousand copies, making it one of the best-selling American works of the nineteenth century. Through the next four decades Phelps published hundreds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243979
• ISBN13: 9780803243972
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"