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The Gates Ajar
''The Gates Ajar'' is an 1868 religious novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (later Elizabeth Phelps Ward) that was immensely popular following its publication. It was the second best-selling religious novel of the 19th century. 80,000 copies were sold in America by 1900; 100,000 were sold in England during the same time period. Sequels ''Beyond the Gates'' (1883) and ''The Gates Between'' (1887) were also bestsellers, and the three together are referred to as the author's "Spiritualist novels."〔Frank, Lisa Tendrich. (Women in the American Civil War, Volume 1 ), p. 438-39 (2008)〕
==Overview==
And when my angel guide went up,
He left the pearly gates ajar.
---Mrs. Adoniram Judson (C. ) 〔
The novel is presented like a diary by its main protagonist, Mary Cabot, who mourns the death of her brother Royal. Much of the plot is presented as a dialogue about the afterlife between the two women. The novel represents heaven as being similar to Earth (but better). In contrast with traditions of Calvinism, Phelps's version of heaven is corporeal where the dead have "spiritual bodies", live in houses, raise families, and participate in various activities.〔Murison, Justine S. ''The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth Century American Literature''. Cambridge University Press, 2011: 166. ISBN 9781107007918〕 The idea was not original to Phelps; at least one earlier book, the anonymous ''Heaven Our Home'', was advertising as early as 1863 about its vision of "a Social Heaven in which there will be the most Perfect Recognition, Intercourse, Fellowship, and Bliss.〔Hart, James David. ''The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950: 120. ISBN 0-520-00538-4〕
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