num_pages: 384
description: Traces the experiences of a Calvinist New Englander who spent most of her life and raised her family in a now-historic home, noting how her lifetime, which spanned three wars and numerous other events, reflected American history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
language: English
title: Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres
titlecomplete: Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817)
genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Scribner