PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART (MRS. H.D. WARD) (1844). —American novelist. The Gates Ajar (1869), Hedged In (1870), Story of Avis (1877), An Old Maid's Paradise (1879), Beyond the Gates (1883), The Madonna of the Tubs (1887), The Gates Between (1887), Struggle for Immortality (1889), Come Forth (with H.D. Ward, 1890), Avery, Trixy (1904), etc.