ELIZABETH

See also:

• STUART, ARABELLA (1575-1615)
• STUART, GILBERT (1755-x828)
• STUART, JAMES EWELL BROWN (1833-1864)
• STUART, JOHN
• STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)
• STUART, SIR JOHN, COUNT

STUART

See also:

• PHELPS, AUSTIN (182o-1890)
• PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN (1822-I900)
• PHELPS, SAMUEL (1804-1878)

PHELPS

See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

WARD (1844-1911)  , American author and philanthropist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 31st of August 1844 . She was the granddaughter of the Rev . Moses Stuart, and the daughter of the Rev . Austin Phelps (1820-189o) who became a professor in the Andover Theological Seminary in 1848, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852), who wrote Sunnyside (1851), a popular book in its day, and other works . In 1848 she removed with her parents to Andover, where she attended private schools . When she was in her teens she wrote short stories for the Youth's Companion, The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine . She wrote many juveniles, especially Sunday-School books, such as the Tiny and the Gypsy series . In 1868 appeared in The Atlantic Monthly her short story, The Tenth of January, a narrative of the falling and burning of a cotton-mill at Lawrence, Mass., in 186o . In the same year appeared The Gates Ajar (1868), her first novel, a realistic study of life after death, which was widely read and was translated into several European languages . Her Beyond the Gates (1883), The Gates Between (1887) and Within the Gates (1901) are in the same vein . She was actively interested in charitable work, in the advancement of women and in temperance reform . In 1888 she married Herbert Dickinson Ward (b .

1861), son of the Rev .

William Hayes Ward . Among Mrs Ward's books, in addition to those already mentioned, are: Men, Women and Ghosts (1869); The Trott Book (1869), juvenile; Hedged in (187o); The Silent Partner (1871); Trotty's Wedding Tour and Story Book (1873), juvenile; What to Wear (1873), essays; Poetic Studies (1875), poems; The Story of Avis (1877), Sealed Orders, and Other Stories (1879); Friends: a Duet (1881); Doctor Zay (1882) ; Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems (1884); Old Maids, and Burglars in Paradise (1885); The Madonna of the Tubs (1886), a short story; Jack the Fisherman (1887), a Gloucester tragedy; The Struggle for Immortality (1889), essays; Fourteen to One, and Other Stories (1891); Austin Phelps: a Memoir (1891); Donald Marcy (1893); A Singular Life (1894), one of her best-known novels; The Supply at Saint Agatha's (1896); Chapters from a Life (1896); The Story of Jesus Christ: an Interpretation (1897) ; The Successors of Mary the First (1901) ; Avery (1902), first issued serially in Harper's Magazine as His Wife; Trixv (1904); The Man in the Case (1906) ; Walled In (19o7); and Thouggi Life Do Us Part (1908) . In collaboration with her husband, she wrote two novels founded on Biblical scenes and characters, The Master of the Magicians (189o), and Come Forth (189o) . Among Mr Ward's books are The New Senior at Andover (189o); The Republic without a President, and Other Short Stories (1891) ; The Captain of the Kittiwink (1892) ; A Dash to the Pole (1893) ; The White Crown, and Other Stories (1894) ; The Burglar who moved Paradise (1897) : and The Light of the World (1901) .