Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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    Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if he had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amount of hard work is too severe for it.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)