Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
(Elizabeth Phelps Ward)
(1844 - 1911)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was a popular author of Protestant religious novels. Her best selling novel was The Gates Ajar, a dialogue about the afterlife.
Bibliography
The Supply at Saint Agatha’s (1896)
A ‘supply’ is a Protestant clergyman who fills in for an absent pastor. In this short story, a heavenly figure fills in for a dying man. Read online at Hathitrust.
Sarah Whitman
Marcia Oakes Woodbury