This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.1868. Phelps was the author of fifty-seven volumes of fiction, poetry and essays. A Singular Life is one of her best known works. The Gates Ajar is one of her major works. It begins: One week; only one week today, this twenty-first of February. I have been sitting here in the dark a...