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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  • The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

  • Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, U.S. writer, reformer

(1844 - 1911)

Born: Mary Gray Phelps. Full name: Mary Gray Wooster Stuart Phelps Ward. Used pseudonym Mary Ward. Generally wrote as Mary Stuart Phelps.