Abbreviations for periodicals: OYF = Our Young Folks; SN = St. Nicholas; WA = Wide-Awake; YC = Youth's Companion
Bracketed material indicates reprints: TB = The Trotty Book (1870); TWT = Trotty's Wedding Tour and Other Stories (1873)
1865
"Sir Franklin" OYF 1: 683-90 (November)
1866
"Boots" YC 39: 29 (February 22)
"Phantom Flowers" YC 39: 49 (March 29)
"Caro's Composition" YC 39: 89 (June 7)
1867
"Trotty" OYF 3: 35-40 (January) [TB]
"Ruby's Visitor" OYF 3: 273-79 (May) [TWT]
1868
"How June Found Massa Linkum" OYF 4: 272-79 (May) [TWT]
"The Strolling Player" (poem) OYF 4: 465-66 (August)
"More About Trotty" OYF 4: 646-51 (November) [TB]
1869
"Rebecca at the Well" YC 42: 9 (January 14)
"Dr. Trotty" OYF 5: 327-32 (May) [TB]
"Baby-Birds" YC 42:369 (November 25) [TWT]
1870
"Rye's Fritters" OYF 6: 212-18 (April) [TWT]
"Trotty's Compositions" OYF 6: 343-46 (June) [TWT]
"Bobbit's Hotel" OYF 6: 482-87 (August) [TWT]
"Just Like Aunt Banger" OYF 6: 658-61 (November) [TWT]
1871
"Deb" OYF 7: 102-06 (Feb) [TWT]
"One Way to Get an Education" YC 44: 145 (May 11) [TWT]
"More Ways Than One" OYF 7: 227-32 (April) [TWT]
"The Girl Who Could Not Write a Composition" OYF 7 (August-September) [TWT]
1872
"The Great Sea-Serpent" OYF 8: 20-23 (January) [TWT]
"The Great Woodchuck Society" OYF 8: 356-61 (June) [TWT]
"Did You Speak?" (poem) OYF 8: 523-24 (September) [Poetic Studies]
"Our Little Woman" OYF 8 (November-December)
1873
"The Day of Judgment" OYF 9:222-27 (April) [TWT]
"The Calico Paper" OYF 9: 283-90 (May) [TWT]
"Hannah Colby's Chance" OYF 9 (October-November-December)
1874
"Taken at His Word" SN 1: 316-21 (April)
"The Affair of the Sandpiper" SN 1: 595-601 (August)
"How Trotty Went to the Great Funeral" SN 2:11-15 (November)
1875
"In the Dory" (poem) SN 2: 159 (January)
"A Narrow Escape: A True Story" WA 1: 187-91 (October)
1877
"At the Party" (poem) WA 4: 202-03 (April) [1885]
"Trotty's Lecture Bureau" SN 4: 454-55 (May)
1878
"The Boys of Brimstone Court" WA 7: 9-12 (July)
1879
"Popsy and Pease" YC 52: 445-46 (December 25)
[Reprinted in The Young Idea and misattributed to Frank H. Sweet -- part 1]
1880
"Us Boys and the Other Boy" WA 10: 11-16 (January)
"Mary Elizabeth" SN 7: 316-19 (February)
"Lilies in Prison" YC 53: 461-62 (December 30)
Reprinted in Caroline B. Le Roy's A Well-Planned Course in Reading (1901)]
1881
"The Silent Children" (poem) WA 12: 50-51 (January)
"The Baby's Prayer" (poem) WA 12: 384-85 (June)
"The Life-everlasting Pillow" YC 54: 277-29 (August 4)
1882
"Peter the Great" YC 55: 212 (May 25)
"The Little Mud Sparrows (A Jewish Legend)" (poem) WA 16: 14 (December)
1883-1884
"A Brave Girl" serial WA 18-19
(December-January-February-
March-April-May-
June-July-August)
1884
"Supporting Herself" SN 11: 517-19 (May 1884)
1885
"A Trotty Story" WA 22: 13-16 (Deceomber)
1886
"The Tenement-house Fire" (poem) WA 22: 250-54 (March)
"A Pistol Story" YC 59: 113-14 (March 25)
"A Pretty Scarecrow" WA 24: 13-20 (December)
1888
"The Toddlethwaite Prize" WA 28: 51-55 (December)
1889
"After Rain" (poem) YC 62: 202 (April 18)
1890
"A Popular Boy" YC 63: 206-07 (April 17)
"A Lost Hero" YC 63: 305-06 (June 5) (co-authored with husband Herbert D. Ward; $1000 prize story)
[Reprinted in book form in 1891]
1892
"Jenny Lind at Niagara" (poem) YC 65: 48 (January 28)
"Twelve Yards of Roses" YC 65: 181-85 (April 12)
1893
"The Royal Test" (poem) YC 66: 424 (August 31)
1894
"The Country Week of Job and Joggins" YC 67: 285-86 (June 21)
1895
"Sky-light" (poem) YC 68: 244 (May 16)
1898
"The 'Tel. and Tel. Company'" (poem) YC 72: 416 (September 8)
1900
"Mary Darl -- Heroine" YC 74: 624-25 (November 29)
1901
"Nobody's Tim" YC 75: 277-78 (May 30)
Based on information from Mary Angela Bennett's bibliography
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1939) and supplementary research.
Copyright 2011 by Deidre Johnson . Please do not reproduce without permission