CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE

BY

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth T. Spring. "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps" in Our Famous Women, Hartford: Worthington, 1884.

CONTENTS
I.	AN ANDOVER HOME
II.	ANDOVER LIFE AND PEOPLE
III.	AT SCHOOL
IV.	WAR-TIME: FIRST STORIES . .
V.	THE FALL OF THE PEMBERTON MILL : THE GATES AJAR
VI.	AND STILL THE GATES AJAR
VII.	MRS. STOWE : JAMES T. FIELDS
VIII.	LONGFELLOW : WHITTIER : HOLMES
IX.	CELIA THAXTER : LUCY LARCOM : LYDIA MARIA CHILD : PHILLIPS BROOKS : THE OLD MAIDS' PARADISE
X.	GLOUCESTER
XI.	EDWARD ROWLAND SILL : "SHUT IN" : A ROSE GARDEN IN CAROLINA
XII.	ART FOR TRUTH'S SAKE : STORIES AND BODES : A NEW HOME
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Chapter One