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15 de abr. de 2024 · Mary Arnold Ward was an English novelist whose work explored the idea of religion based on social action as opposed to theology. Mrs. Humphry Ward | Victorian novelist, social reformer, philanthropist | Britannica
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Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor setting up a Settlement in London and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League .
Mary Augusta Ward CBE (nascida Arnold; 11 de junho de 1851 - 24 de março de 1920) foi uma romancista britânica que escreveu sob seu nome de casada como Sra. Humphry Ward. [1] Ela trabalhou para melhorar a educação dos pobres e se tornou a presidente fundadora da Liga Nacional Anti-Sufrágio das Mulheres.
ary Augusta Ward, née Arnold (1851-1920), is better known as the late Victorian novelist Mrs Humphry Ward. The eldest granddaughter of Dr Arnold of Rugby, she was born into the intellectual éite: her father Thomas would become an Oxford don; her uncle Matthew, the poet and literary and cultural critic, would become Professor of Poetry at Oxford;
16 de dez. de 2022 · Definition. Mary Augusta [Mrs Humphry] Ward (1851–1920) was one of the most famous novelists in the world at the end of the nineteenth century, primarily because of her novel Robert Elsmere about the agonies of faith and doubt.
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Prolific English novelist, critic, journalist, memoirist, settlement house organizer, and opponent of women's suffrage who was the author of Robert Elsmere (1888), one of the most famous religious novels of the 19th century . Name variations: Mary Augusta Arnold (1851–1871); Mary Augusta Ward (1871–1920); Mrs. Humphry Ward (in all ...
Mrs Humphry Ward, like other writers who were extremely popular during their own time periods, demonstrates more extravagantly than most Victorian novelists the vicissitudes of literary reputation. At the peak of her career, her most famous novel Robert Elsmere sold nearly a quarter of a million copies within a few months of its publication in February 1888, and was soon translated into most ...
