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 Sequels Beyond the Gates 1883 and The Gates Between 1887 were also bestsellers and the three together are referred to as the authors Spiritualist novels Mary Cabot of Homer Massachusetts has recently been notified of Royal Cabots...