Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets.
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“A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep, and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“Truth, like climate, is common property ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“Conviction is the conscience of the mind.”
—Humphrey, Mrs. Ward (1851–1920)