[Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart]. Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins

[Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart]. Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins; By the author of "Sunny Side." Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852. First Edition. [10614]

Faded blindstamped cloth, gilt to spine 6 x 4 inches, frontispiece of a scene from the story, 136 generally clean pp. with infrequent foxing. Two additional plates and several text illustrations. Good. Hardcover.

City cousins visit Kitty Brown in the country and learn about life there. Includes moral lessons along Christian themes.

Attributed to H. Trusta. H. Trusta was the pen-name of Mrs. Elizabeth (Wooster) Stuart Phelps, (1815- 1852) , wife of Austin Phelps, D. D. (1820-1890), Congregational pastor and professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Andover, elected President of Andover in 1869. She had a literary interest from her youth, and often read her stories to her siblings. She attended school in Boston under the tutelage of Rev. Jacob Abbott, who encouraged her writing; during this time she began submitting stories to periodicals. After her marriage to Rev. Phelps in 1842, she began to write and publish semi-biographical novels of life as a minister's wife.

This is the story the wife of a young minister who begins his life of service in a country parish, and all of the peculiarities of the people and place. It is set in New England. The author surely knew of what she wrote. It was immensely popular, and went through several editions on both sides of the Atlantic.