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Mary Augusta Ward CBE ( néeArnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. [1] 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 .
15 de abr. de 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Apr 15, 2024 • Article History. Mary Arnold Ward. Born: June 11, 1851, Tasmania, Australia. Died: March 24, 1920, London, England (aged 68) Notable Works: “Robert Elsmere”
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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 · Most of her fiction, published under the name Mrs. Humphry Ward, focuses on the difficulties of male-female relationships, social issues, and religious conflict. Her non-fiction includes three pamphlets on World War I, the product of her work as one of the first female war correspondents.
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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 (1851-1920) - Victorian Secrets. Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) was born in Hobart, Tasmania into a veritable Victorian dynasty: the Arnolds. Her grandfather was the infamous Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby and her uncle was Matthew Arnold, affectionately known as Uncle Matt.
Following the success of his anthology The English Poets in 1879, Humphry Ward resolved to give up academic life. He took a position on The Times in January 1881, and a year later became the newspaper's principal art critic and occasional leader writer. In November 1881 the family moved to London.
