Trixy

Trixy
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780810140448
ISBN-13 : 0810140446
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Trixy by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The book decries the then common practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals. In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early animal rights movement in Phelps’s influential campaign to introduce legislation to regulate or end this practice. Phelps not only presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but argues that training young doctors in it makes them bad physicians. Emily E. VanDette’s introduction demonstrates that Phelps’s protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays, and speeches, was well ahead of its time. Though not well known today, Phelps’s 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar, which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers traumatized by the Civil War, was the century’s second best-selling American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Recently scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps’s significance. As contemporary authors, including Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna J. Haraway, Gary L. Francione, and Carol J. Adams, have extended her vision, they have also created new audiences for her work.

The story of Avis

The story of Avis
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Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600061899
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The story of Avis by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

What to Wear?

What to Wear?
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105039108969
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Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis What to Wear? by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Six essays exploring social, moral, economic, and gender issues surrounding women's clothing.

The Gates Ajar

The Gates Ajar
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Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 0343659298
ISBN-13 : 9780343659295
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gates Ajar by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Walled in

Walled in
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012360593
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Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Walled in by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Silent Partner

The Silent Partner
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9783368133375
ISBN-13 : 3368133373
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Silent Partner by : Elizabeth Phelps

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Chapters from a Life

Chapters from a Life
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:RSLEWM
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Rating : 4/5 (WM Downloads)

Synopsis Chapters from a Life by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Story of Avis (Classic Reprint)

The Story of Avis (Classic Reprint)
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 1528147502
ISBN-13 : 9781528147507
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of Avis (Classic Reprint) by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Excerpt from The Story of Avis Easily won I A voice behind the young artist repeated these words in a protesting whisper; then, gathering distinctness, said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Three Spiritualist Novels

Three Spiritualist Novels
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 0252069072
ISBN-13 : 9780252069079
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Spiritualist Novels by : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

This volume brings together for the first time three novels that illustrate the distinguished American writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's enduring interest in the afterlife. The daughter of a Calvinist minister, Phelps could not reconcile herself to the idea of a heaven full of spirits who had cut their ties to those left behind on Earth. Rather, she became convinced of the viability of the Spiritualist view that a vital link to earthly life continues in the hereafter. Articulating an alternative to conservative church doctrine, Phelps assured her readers--many of them women bereft of their loved ones by the Civil War--that Spiritualist ideas about the afterlife were not fundamentally at odds with Scripture. Like the protagonist of The Gates Ajar, these readers wanted to believe "something actual, something pleasant" about the world to come, not "glittering generalities" about a "dreadful Heaven" where their loved ones were too busy singing and worshiping to have any thought of those left behind. All three of the novels collected here--The Gates Ajar (1868), Beyond the Gates (1883), and The Gates Between (1887)--describe heaven as a perfected version of earthly life and the afterlife as a chance to make up for opportunities squandered on Earth. A grieving sister finds consolation in the Spiritualist idea of a continued connection with her beloved brother; a dying woman finds her soulmate in the afterlife; an erring husband makes amends across the line between the living and the dead. Tremendously popular in Phelps's lifetime, these novels offer a way of reconciling human beings to earthly loss and sorrow, assuring readers of an afterlife both restorative and compensatory. They also provide an intriguing look at a phenomenon that preoccupied nineteenth-century America and continues to fascinate us in the twenty-first century.