Carol Farley Kessler

Standard Name: Kessler, Carol Farley

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
A letter from George Eliot written on 13 November 1877 thanked ESP for her copy of Avis: I find the writing . . . filled with indications of that keen sensibility and observation which...
Literary responses Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Carol Farley Kessler writes that when she first discovered ESP (The Story of Avis) the shock of recognition was so great that I had no choice but to follow Phelps' trail wherever it...
Textual Features Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Her treatment of marriage in both of these is, according to critic Carol Farley Kessler , unconventional and innovative, without the standard happy ending of woman's fiction.
Kessler, Carol Farley, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. “Introduction”. The Story of Avis, edited by Carol Farley Kessler and Carol Farley Kessler, Rutgers University Press, 1985, p. xiii - xxxii.
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In Hedged In, marriage ends a...
Textual Production Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Critic Carol Farley Kessler suggests that ESP used the pseudonym to avoid the same kind of negative criticism she had experienced with the publication of The Story of Avis (which reviewers either loved or hated)...

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Kessler, Carol Farley. “A Literary Legacy: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mother and Daughter”. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol.
5
, No. 3, pp. 28-33.
Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Kessler, Carol Farley. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Twayne, 1982.
Kessler, Carol Farley, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. “Introduction”. The Story of Avis, edited by Carol Farley Kessler and Carol Farley Kessler, Rutgers University Press, 1985, p. xiii - xxxii.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. The Story of Avis. Editor Kessler, Carol Farley, Rutgers University Press, 1985.