1943. Phelps bequeathed the house to his niece Carolyn Hubbard Parcells Lucas. In 1951, a museum was opened in the home to house Phelps’ library and to focus on the history of Huron City. In 1964, the Pointe aux Barques Life Saving Station house was moved here. In 1987, Carolyn Lucas died, and the William Lyon Phelps Foundation took over the house and museum. Quotes "Music is essentially the manly art... In the entire history of music, in all times and countries, there had never been a woman able to write first-rate music." The professor asked his students to discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' "sprung rhythm" technique. One young man handed in his exam reading, "Only God knows the answer to your question. Merry Christmas." Professor Phelps returned the paper after Christmas with the note, "Happy New Year. God gets an A—you get an F." Publications His works include: The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth Century Literature (1893) Essays on Modern Novelists (1910) Essays on Russian Novelists (1911) Essays on Books (1914) The Advance of the English Novel (1916) The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1918) Archibald Marshall A Realistic Novelist (1919) Essays on Modern Dramatists (1921–1922)< Some Makers of American Literature (1923) As I Like It (1923) Essays on Things (1930) What I Like (in Prose) (1933) Autobiography with Letters (1939) Marriage (1940) A Private Library (1933) References External links William Lyon Phelps papers (MS 578). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. William Lyon Phelps Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1865 births 1943 deaths American non-fiction writers Harvard University alumni Yale University alumni Writers from New Haven, Connecticut People from Huron County, Michigan Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters