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Choose a career or choose a family: Ward's 1877 novel exposes and eviscerates the false dichotomy of modern womanhood

Avis Dobell is a talented young painter on the rise, working to establish herself, when she meets professor Philip Ostrander. Though she has sworn to never marry and at first rejects...

Men women and ghosts is a collection of short fiction that combines domestic realism with supernatural elements to examine emotional strain, moral choice, and hidden inner life. The stories unfold within households and close social circles where affection, disappointment, and obligation shape...

For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and...

Men, Women, and Ghosts, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been...

Loveliness: A Story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work...