Phelps

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    ... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one’s notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one’s dearest readers.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)