"I read, with a kind of hopeless envy,……" — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money. It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere.I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be..."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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