Trixy

"At the height of her fame in the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was a highly visible author and women's rights advocate. Phelps is still best-known for her Spiritualist novel, "The Gates Ajar" (1868), which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to (women) readers traumatized by the Civil War, and was the century's second bestselling novel, after "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Phelps has received increased critical attention in the last twenty years, but while her work begun has begun to be restored, most scholars have glossed over the most passionate cause of her late…