The Gates Ajar
novel by Phelps
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discussed in biography
- In Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
…sentimental and didactic novel entitled The Gates Ajar. It is the story of a girl’s struggle to renew her faith despite the death of a beloved brother. The novel was immediately popular, selling 80,000 copies in the United States and 100,000 in England; it was translated into at least four…
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portrayal of heaven
- In heaven: Other heavens
…by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s novel The Gates Ajar (1868), portrayed heaven as an intimate realm of family reunions.
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