Phelps, Elizabeth Wooster Stuart (1815–1852)

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Phelps, Elizabeth Wooster Stuart (1815–1852)

American novelist. Name variations: Elizabeth Phelps; (pseudonym) H. Trusta. Born Elizabeth Stuart, Aug 13, 1815, in Andover, MA; died in Boston, MA, Nov 30, 1852, from "cerebral disease," from which she had suffered since she was 19; dau. of Moses Stuart (minister and professor) and Abigail (Clark) Stuart; m. Reverend Austin Phelps, Sept 1842; children: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844–1911, novelist); Moses Stuart Phelps (b. 1849); Amos Lawrence Phelps (b. 1852).

Author of the popular religious novel The Sunny Side; or, The Country Minister's Wife (1851); also wrote A Peep at "Number Five"; or, A Chapter in the Life of a City Pastor (1852), The Angel over the Right Shoulder, or the Beginning of a New Year (1852), The Tell-tale; or, Home Secrets Told by Old Travellers (1853), The Last Leaf from Sunny Side (1853) and Little Mary; or, Talks and Tales for Children (1854).

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