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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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“The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.”
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“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.