For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven and demonstrated that for American women, the war didn't simply end at Appomattox. When Mary Cabot loses her beloved brother, Union soldier Royal, in the war, she feels as though she will never feel peace again until the arrival of her widowed aunt Winifred. Sharing the wisdom that has comforted her through her grief, Winifred offers Mary a groundbreaking view of the afterlife: a place of loving reunion with all those who were lost. As Winifred ministers to Mary, her vision of the afterlife circulates in the community and attracts local adherents who have similarly suffered losses in the war. Written with the intention of illuminating and bettering the lives of women after the war, The Gates Ajar is an empowering manifesto on conquering grief and a timeless manual for optimism.

The Gates Ajar

Literature & Fiction

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

'the Gates Ajar' [By E.S. Phelps] Critically Examined, by a Dean

History

Franklin Classics

The Story of Avis (Rediscovered Fiction by American Women)

Ward, Elizabeth S.

Literary

Ayer Co. Pub

Doctor Zay

Wentworth Press

The Successors of Mary the First

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The Gates Between

Genre Fiction

Kessinger Pub Co

Trixy

Contemporary

Kessinger Publishing

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