A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911: Art for Truth's SakeEdwin Mellen Press, 2003 - 291 pages This work examines the novels, essays, and short stories of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps within their cultural/historical context. It examines the social climate and reform movements during Phelps' writing career, and shows how she was a woman ahead of her time in the 19th century. |
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Page 17
... took such a hold upon the popular heart . Her " Sunnyside " had already reached a circulation of one hundred thousand copies , and she was following it fast - too fast - by other books for which the critics and the publishers clamored ...
... took such a hold upon the popular heart . Her " Sunnyside " had already reached a circulation of one hundred thousand copies , and she was following it fast - too fast - by other books for which the critics and the publishers clamored ...
Page 83
... took her at first very hard . To begin with , she had lung fever . . . . But think of it , Jane ! Lung fever ! Right there in my pretty gray room ! ... I own I was mortified . For , at the moment , I had felt so aggrieved , afflicted ...
... took her at first very hard . To begin with , she had lung fever . . . . But think of it , Jane ! Lung fever ! Right there in my pretty gray room ! ... I own I was mortified . For , at the moment , I had felt so aggrieved , afflicted ...
Page 119
... took different routes to reach the same goal , however , and movements like the Women's Christian Temperance Union were often more closely associated with the ideals of one group than the other . Similar ( and often overlapping in ...
... took different routes to reach the same goal , however , and movements like the Women's Christian Temperance Union were often more closely associated with the ideals of one group than the other . Similar ( and often overlapping in ...
Contents
The Literary Life of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 1 |
Phelps | 27 |
The Fingers of the World | 61 |
Copyright | |
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and ... Ben Railton No preview available - 2007 |