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

1861), son of the Rev. See also:

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

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