Within the Gates

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 128K words
Chapters: 13

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Within the Gates by Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsAuthor: Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Dec 23, 2016

Editor's review

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was a 19th-century American writer whose works often engage with social ethics and women's circumstances. Published by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain eBook, Within the Gates is freely available in the original English. Its value lies in offering a sample of how religion, morality, and everyday life were written about in 19th-century American literature, making it suitable for readers interested in American literary history or women's writing of the period. Note that this is an original English-language eBook, a public-domain reset edition without a modern introduction or notes, so understanding it may require solid English reading ability and knowledge of the historical context. It is better suited as literary-historical material or optional reading than as a plot-driven entertainment read. Reading it alongside background materials on 19th-century American society is recommended to better grasp the ideas and modes of expression in the text.

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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 Author

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was an American writer. Fourteen of her works are held in this collection, commonly classified under inspirational and personal growth. Public information is limited, and reliable details of her life such as education, awards, and official positions are not available here, so this note focuses on her works. Her representative titles include The Gates Ajar, Beyond the Gates, The Gates Between, Men, Women, and Ghosts, A Singular Life, Avery, Loveliness: A Story, and the poetry collection Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems. These titles show that she wrote both fiction and poetry, often exploring faith, death, the imagined afterlife, and everyday moral questions with a reflective and consoling tone. Some works use ghostly and supernatural frameworks to examine inner struggle in the face of loss and the unknown. Her style is quiet and restrained, with attention to her characters' inner lives, giving her inspirational writing a gentle, introspective quality.