Austin Phelps

ESP 's father, Austin Phelps , was the son of a revivalist preacher and later became a clergyman in Boston. Uncomfortable with his pastorate, he assumed the position of professor of theology at Andover Theological Seminary

The only daughter in a family of boys, ESP credited her father for her intellectual development: He was my climate. As soon as I began to think, I began to reverence thought and study and...

She continued to engage in feminist advocacy work despite her father's strong opposition, and that of her community: It is almost impossible to understand, now, what it meant when I was twenty-five, for a young...

ESP published a tribute to her father (had died the year before): Austin Phelps : A Memoir.