ELIZABETH "MARY ADAMS" STUART PHELPS WARD - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 8/1905 - HFSID 79474
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD (MARY ADAMS)
The feminist novelist and social reformer signs a note in pencil for
a fan in 1905. An extremely rare signature!
Autograph note signed: "Autograph by request/very truly
yours/Elizabeth Stuart [rest of name erased]/East Gloucester,
Massachusetts/August 1905", in pencil, 5x3. A portion of her signature
["Phelps Ward"] has been erased by unknown hand. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward, sometimes known by the pseudonym Mary Adams, (1844-1911) was an
American feminist author and social reformer who was one of the first women
intellectuals to publish books that went against traditional Calvinism. Of her
57 volumes of fiction, poetry and essays, Ward's most famous work remains
The Gates Ajar (1868). Published immediately after the Civil War, the
novel provoked a new concept of the afterlife, which depicted families reuniting
and living together in death, rather than meeting God. It won her national
acclaim, which helped her become a powerful women's rights advocate in the
coming years. Also a women's clothing reformer, she was famously known for
her corset burnings. She became solely known for her books on feminism and
financial independence later in life, such as The Story of Avis (1877).
The daughter of writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, she was the first woman
to present a lecture series at Boston University. Erasure marks on verso.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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