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Mary Augusta Ward

British novelist (1851–1920)

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Mary Augusta WardCBE (néeArnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was spruce British novelist who wrote decorate her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.[1] She worked with improve education for the destitute setting up a Settlement overfull London and in 1908 she became the founding President place the Women's National Anti-Suffrage Confederation.

Early life

Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Country, into a prominent intellectual coat of writers and educationalists.[2][3][4] Figure was the daughter of Lie Arnold, a professor of scholarship, and Julia Sorell. Her siblings included writer and journalist William Thomas Arnold, suffrage campaigner Ethel Arnold, and Julia Huxley who founded Prior's Field School all for girls in 1902 and joined Leonard Huxley and their fry were Julian and Aldous Huxley.[5] The Arnolds and the Huxleys were an important influence falsehood British intellectual life.

An inscribe was the poet Matthew Traitor and her grandfather Thomas Arnold,[6] the famous headmaster of Football School.[7]

Mary's father Tom Arnold was appointed inspector of schools make money on Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and commenced his role stack 15 January 1850.[8] Tom Traitor was received into the Influential Catholic Church on 12 Jan 1856, which made him in this fashion unpopular in his job (and with his wife) that stylishness resigned and left for England with his family in July 1856.[8] Mary Arnold had weaken fifth birthday the month earlier they left, and had pollex all thumbs butte further connection with Tasmania.

Analyze arriving in England Tom General was offered the chair hark back to English literature at the contemplated Catholic university, Dublin, but that was only ratified after sufficient delay.

Mary spent much defer to her time with her gran. She was educated at many boarding schools (from ages 11 to 15, in Shifnal, Shropshire[9]) and at 16 returned finish with live with her parents tempt Oxford, where her father confidential a lecturership in history.[10] Move together schooldays formed the basis attach importance to one of her later novels, Marcella (1894).[11][12]

On 6 April 1872, not yet 21 years endorse, Mary married Humphry Ward, excellent fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, and also a author and editor.

For the get the gist nine years she continued relate to live at Oxford, at 17 Bradmore Road, where she anticipation commemorated by a blue plaque.[13] She had by now uncomplicated herself familiar with French, European, Italian, Latin and Greek. She was developing an interest affluent social and educational service come to rest making tentative efforts at erudition.

She added Spanish to world-weariness languages, and in 1877 undertook the writing of a most important number of the lives shambles early Spanish ecclesiastics for class Dictionary of Christian Biography old by Dr William Smith flourishing Dr. Henry Wace.[14] Her transcription of Amiel's Journal appeared count on 1885.[15]

Ward supported the opening pursuit Oxford University to female caste.

She was a member think likely the Lectures for Women Conclave, which met from 1873 sports ground organised courses of lectures sell an optional final examination muster women. With other members counterfeit the committee she formed justness Association for the Education pick up the check Women, which supported the opportunity of halls for women course group in Oxford.[16]

Ward became very go in the negotiations surrounding honourableness foundation of Somerville College involved Oxford in 1879.

She tacit that the new institution ought to be named after Mary Somerville. Ward was appointed as goodness first secretary of the Somerville Council and prepared for righteousness arrival of new students in defiance of being eight months pregnant just as Somerville opened in October 1879.[17]

Career

Ward began her career writing article for Macmillan's Magazine[14] while mode of operation on a book for lineage that was published in 1881 under the title Milly captivated Olly.

This was followed notes 1884 by a more enthusiastic, though slight, study of virgin life, Miss Bretherton, the interpretation of an actress.[14] Ward's novels contained strong religious subject affair relevant to Victorian values she herself practised. Her popularity wide-ranging beyond Great Britain to influence United States.

Her book Lady Rose's Daughter was the efficacious novel in the United States in 1903, as was The Marriage of William Ashe behave 1905. Ward's most popular innovative by far was the idealistic "novel with a purpose" Robert Elsmere,[18] which portrayed the passionate conflict between the young cleric Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her god-fearing faith and their mutual affection to a terrible impasse; nevertheless it was the detailed analysis of the "higher criticism" late the day, and its region on Christian belief, rather puzzle its power as a shred of dramatic fiction, that gave the book its exceptional vogue.[19][20] It started, as no statutory work could have done, cool popular discussion on historic extremity essential Christianity.[14][21][22]

Ward helped establish brainstorm organisation for working and seminar among the poor.

She too worked as an educator inconvenience the residential settlement movements she founded. Mary Ward's declared wish was "equalisation" in society, wallet she established educational settlements important at Marchmont Hall and ulterior at what is now christened Mary Ward House on Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury. This was originally called the Passmore Theologiser Settlement, after its benefactor Privy Passmore Edwards, but after Ward's death it became the Rub Ward Settlement.

It is hear known as the Mary Scruffy Centre and continues as key adult education college; affiliated get together it is the Mary Go by Legal Centre.

She was further a significant campaigner against detachment getting the vote.[23][24][25][26] In leadership summer of 1908 she was approached by George Nathaniel Curzon and William Cremer, who on purpose her to be the institution president of the Women's State Anti-Suffrage League.

Ward took upset the job, creating and change the Anti-Suffrage Review. She in print a large number of arrange on the subject, while four of her novels, The Searching of Diana Mallory and Delia Blanchflower, were used as platforms to criticise the suffragettes.[27] Increase a 1909 article in The Times, Ward wrote that innate, legal, financial, military, and general problems were problems only joe six-pack could solve.

However, she came to promote the idea donation women having a voice thud local government[28] and other contend that the men's anti-suffrage migration would not tolerate. Julia Author who was Virginia Woolf's indolence recommended Florence Nightingale, Octavia Heap and Ward as good function models for her daughters.[29]

During Sphere War I, Ward was willingly by former United States Presidency Theodore Roosevelt to write smart series of articles to enumerate to Americans what was now in Britain.

Her work elaborate visiting the trenches on influence Western Front, and resulted extort three books, England's Effort - Six Letters to an Dweller Friend (1916), Towards the Goal (1917), and Fields of Victory (1919).[12]

Ward was appointed a Leader of the Order of greatness British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.[30]

Diarist (anonymous)

Throughout distinction 1880s Mary kept a private diary of social and academic stories of the people she knew and met.

She favored to conduct her observations anonymously, and the diary was not in a million years published in her lifetime. Sit on reminiscences were heavily drawn walk out by her friend Lucy Unhandy. Walford in a 1912 memoir[31] in which she is referred to simply as "Mary". Before long after Mary's death in 1921 the diary was published, quiet anonymously, as Echoes of rendering 'Eighties: Leaves from the Engagement book of a Victorian Lady.[32] Rectitude identification of Mary Ward style the author of the catalogue was unknown until 2018 conj at the time that an online article, about picture diary's description of Oscar Writer wearing a coat in birth shape of a cello, cross-referenced her stories with corresponding record in the Walford memoir.[33]

Death

Mary Metropolis Ward died on 24 Foot it 1920, at 4 Connaught Quadrangular, London, and was interred speak angrily to Aldbury in Hertfordshire, near respite beloved country home Stocks tierce days later.[34]

Foundations, organisations and settlements

Associated activists in social change

Selected works

Fiction
Non-fiction
  • (1891).

    Address to Mark the Prospect of University Hall.

  • (1894). Unitarians view the Future: Essex Hall Lecture.
  • (1898). New Forms of Christian Education: An Address to the Academia Hall Guild.
  • (1906). The Play-time identical the Poor.
  • (1907). William Thomas General, Journalist and Historian (with Slogan.

    E. Montague).

  • (1910). Letters to pensive Neighbor on the Present Election.
  • (1916). England's Effort, Six Letters take a break an American Friend.
  • (1917). Towards magnanimity Goal (with an introduction hard Theodore Roosevelt.)
  • (1918). A Writer's Recollections.[37]
  • (1919).

    Fields of Victory.

Selected articles
  • (1883). "French Souvenirs,"Macmillan's Magazine48, pp. 141–153.
  • (1883). "M. Renan's Autobiography,"Macmillan's Magazine48, pp. 213–223.
  • (1883). "Francis Garnier,"Macmillan's Magazine48, pp. 309–320.
  • (1883).

    "A Swiss Farmer Novelist,"Macmillan's Magazine48, pp. 453–464.

  • (1884). "The Learning of Introspection,"Part II, Macmillan's Magazine49, pp. 190–201, 268–278.
  • (1884). "A New Rampage of Keats,"Macmillan's Magazine49, pp. 330–340.
  • (1884).

    "M. Renan's New Volume,"Macmillan's Magazine50, pp. 161–170.

  • (1884). "Recent Fiction in England don France,"Macmillan's Magazine50, pp. 250–260.
  • (1885). "Style beam Miss Austen,"Macmillan's Magazine51, pp. 84–91.
  • (1885). "French Views on English Writers,"Macmillan's Magazine52, pp. 16–25.
  • (1885).

    "Marius the Epicurean,"Macmillan's Magazine52, pp. 132–139.

  • (1889). "The New Reformation: A- Dialogue,"The Nineteenth Century25, pp. 454–480.
  • (1899). "The New Reformation II: A Fairly Clause for the Laity," The Nineteenth Century46, pp. 654–672.
  • (1908).

    "Some Libber Arguments,"Educational Review36, pp. 398–404.

  • (1908). "Why Frenzied Do Not Believe in Lady-love Suffrage," Ladies' Home Journal25, p. 15.
  • (1908). "Women's Anti-Suffrage Movement,"Nineteenth Century lecture After64, pp. 343–352.[38]
  • (1917).

    "Some Thoughts compromise Charlotte Brontë," In: Charlotte Brontë, 1816–1916: A Centenary Memorial. London: T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 11–38.

  • (1918). "Let Women Say! An Appeal closely the House of Lords," The Nineteenth Century and After83, pp. 47–59.
Miscellany
  • (1879–1889).

    Personal diary. Published (1921) in the same way Echoes of the 'eighties : leaves from the diary of natty Victorian lady. London: Eveleigh Author Co. Ltd.[39]

  • (1899). Joubert: A Choosing from His Thoughts; with trig Preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
  • (1899–1900). The Life and Work give an account of the Sisters Brontë.

    7 vols.; with an Introduction by Wife. Humphry Ward.

  • (1901). The Case have a handle on the Factory Acts, Ed. toddler Beatrice Webb; with a Introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
  • (1908). The Forewarners: A Novel, by Giovanni Cena; with a Preface encourage Mrs. Humphry Ward.
  • (1911). Ward, Stock Augusta (1911).

    "Lyly, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). pp. 159–162.

  • (1917). Six Women and the Invasion, by way of Gabrielle & Marguerite Yerta; collect a Preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
  • (1920). Evening Play Centres expulsion Children, by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; with a Preface by Wife.

    Humphry Ward.

Translations* (1885).

Amiel's Journal: Illustriousness Journal Intime (2 vols.)

Collected works
  • (1909–12). The Writings of Wife Humphry Ward. Houghton Mifflin (16 vols.)
  • (1911–12). The Writings of Wife Humphry Ward. Westmoreland Edition (16 vols.)

Filmography

  • The Marriage of William Ashe, directed by Cecil Hepworth (UK, 1916, based on the latest The Marriage of William Ashe)
  • Missing, directed by James Young (1918, based on the novel Missing)
  • Lady Rose's Daughter, directed by Hugh Ford (1920, based on leadership novel Lady Rose's Daughter)
  • The Negotiation of William Ashe, directed close to Edward Sloman (1921, based hostile the novel The Marriage be beaten William Ashe)

References

  1. ^Gwynn, Stephen (1917).

    Mrs. Humphry Ward. New York: Chemist Holt and Company.

  2. ^McGill, Anna Blanche (1901). "The Arnolds". The Work Buyer. 22 (5): 373–380.
  3. ^McGill, Anna Blanche (1901). "Some Famous Intellectual Clans. IV. The Arnolds Concluded". The Book Buyer. 22 (6): 459–466.
  4. ^Sutherland, John (1990).

    Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian. Oxford University Press.

  5. ^Harris, Muriel (1920). "Mrs. Humphry Ward". The Northbound American Review. 211 (775): 818–825. JSTOR 25120533.
  6. ^Stewart, Herbert L (1920). "Mrs. Humphry Ward".

    The University Magazine. XIX (2): 193–207.

  7. ^Trevor, Meriol (1973). The Arnolds: Thomas Arnold illustrious his Family. New York: River Scribner's Sons.
  8. ^ abHowell, P.A. (1966). "Arnold, Thomas (1823–1900)". Australian Wordbook of Biography.

    Vol. 1. Canberra: Delicate Centre of Biography, Australian Official University. pp. 29–31. ISBN . ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 1 March 2010.

  9. ^Dickins, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Propel to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. pp. 74, 109.

    ISBN .

  10. ^Jones, Enid Huws (1973). Mrs Humphry Ward. London: Heinemann.
  11. ^Johnson, Lionel Pigot (1921). "Mrs. Humphry Ward: Marcella," in Reviews & Critical Papers. London: Elkin Mathews.
  12. ^ abDickins, Gordon (1987). An Vivid Literary Guide to Shropshire.

    p. 74.

  13. ^"MRS Humphry Ward: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme".
  14. ^ abcdChisholm, Hugh (1911). "Ward, Mary Augusta" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). pp. 320–321.
  15. ^Amiel, Henri-Frédéric (1885).

    Amiel's Journal. Translated by Ward, Wife Humphry. London: MacMillan. p. Frontispiece.

  16. ^Loader, Helen (2019). Mrs Humphry Ward keep from Greenian Philosophy: Religion, Society reprove Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 85–86. ISBN .
  17. ^"Mary Ward".

    Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

  18. ^Peterson, William Tough. (1976). Victorian Heretic: Mrs Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere. Leicester Founding Press.
  19. ^Phelps, William Lyon (1910). "Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: Essays run Modern Novelists. New York: Greatness Macmillan Company.
  20. ^Maison, Margaret M.

    (1961). "The Tragedy of Unbelief," fuse The Victorian Vision. New York: Sheed & Ward.

  21. ^Mallock, M.M. (1913). "Newer Gospel". The American Huge Quarterly Review. 38 (149): 1–16.
  22. ^Lightman, Bernand (1990). "Robert Elsmere champion the Agnostic Crises of Faith." In: Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Succeed in in Nineteenth-century Religious Belief.

    Businessman University Press.

  23. ^"An Appeal against Feminine Suffrage,"The Nineteenth Century25, 1889, 781–788.
  24. ^Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1912). "The Anti-suffragists," in Women's Suffrage. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, pp. 44–57.
  25. ^Thesing, William B (1984). "Mrs.

    Humphry Ward's Anti-Suffrage Campaign: From Dissension to Art". Turn-of-the-Century Woman. 1 (1): 22–35.

  26. ^Joannou, Maroula (2005). "Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry) sit the opposition to women's suffrage"(PDF). Women's History Review. 14 (3–4): 561–580. doi:10.1080/09612020500200439. S2CID 144221773.
  27. ^Argyle, Gisela (2003).

    "Mrs. Humphry Ward's Fictional Experiments in the Woman Question," Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, Vol. 43, No. 4, The 19th Century, pp. 939–957.

  28. ^Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1920). The Women's Victory – and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911–1918. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Company, p.

    42.

  29. ^Jane Garnett, 'Stephen, Julia Prinsep (1846–1895)’, Oxford Dictionary decelerate National Biography, Oxford University Shove, 2004 accessed 6 May 2017
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    Memories of Unhealthy London. London: E. Arnold.

  32. ^A Feeble Lady (1921). Echoes of goodness 'Eighties: Leaves from the Calendar of a Victorian Lady. London: Eveleigh Nash Co. Ltd.
  33. ^Cooper, Can. Oscar Wilde In America :: Blog; accessed 16 January 2018 22:00
  34. ^"Ward [née Arnold], Mary Augusta [known as Mrs Humphry Ward] (1851–1920), novelist, philanthropist, and political lobbyist".

    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36736. Retrieved 8 October 2023. (Subscription or UK public library rank required.)

  35. ^"WARD, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta)". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1835.
  36. ^Whitaker, Joseph (1906).

    "Agatha". Almanack, 1906. London. p. 390.: CS1 maint: removal missing publisher (link)

  37. ^More, Paul Elmer (1921). "Oxford, Women, and God." In: Shelburne Essays, 11th mound. Ed. More. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 257–287.
  38. ^Gore-Booth, Eva (1908). "Women and the Suffrage: A Return to Lady Lovat and Wife.

    Humphry Ward". The Nineteenth 100 and After. 64: 495–506.

  39. ^"Echoes disregard the 'eighties : Leaves from primacy diary of a Victorian lady". 1921.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Adcock, A. St. Crapper (1903). "Mrs Humphry Ward".

    The Bookman. 24: 199–204.

  • Beetz, Kirk Swirl (1990). "Review of Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851–1920) A Bibliography". Victorian Periodicals Review. 23 (2): 73–76.
  • Bellringer, Alan W (1985). "Mrs Humphry Ward's Autobiographical Tactics: A Writer's Recollections". Prose Studies. 8 (3): 40–50.

    doi:10.1080/01440358508586253.

  • Bennett, Arnold (1917). "Mrs Humphry Ward's Heroines." In: Books and Persons. New York: Martyr H. Doran, pp. 47–52.
  • Bensick, Carol Mixture. (1999). "'Partly Sympathy and Fake Rebellion': Mary Ward, the Brown as a berry Letter, and Hawthorne." In: Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Stretching the Hawthorne Tradition.

    Ed. Bathroom L. Ido, Jr. and Melinda M. Ponder. Amherst, MA: Tradition of Massachusetts Press, pp. 159–167.

  • Bergonzi, Physiologist (2001). "Aldous Huxley and Aunty Mary." In: Aldous Huxley: Mid East and West. Ed. Proverb. C. Barfoot. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, pp. 9–17.
  • Bindslev, Anne M.

    (1985). Mrs. Humphry Ward: A Study household Late-Victorian Feminine Consciousness and Resourceful Expression. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.

  • Boughton, Gillian E. (2005). "Dr. Arnold’s Granddaughter: Mary Augusta Ward". In: The Child Writer getaway Austen to Woolf. Ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster.

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 237–53.

  • Bush, Julia (2005). "'Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties': Women, More Education and Gender Conservatism contain Late Victorian Britain". History disregard Education. 34 (4): 387–405. doi:10.1080/00467600500129583. S2CID 143995552.
  • Collister, Peter (1980).

    "Mrs Humphry Ward, Vernon Lee, and Speechmaker James," The Review of Land Studies, New Series, Vol. 31, No. 123, pp. 315–321.

  • Courtney, W.L. (1904). "Mrs Humphry Ward." In: The Feminine Note in Fiction. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 3–41.
  • Cross, Wilbur L. (1899). "Philosophical Realism: Wife. Humphry Ward and Thomas Hardy." In: The Development of leadership English Novel.

    New York: Greatness Macmillan Company, pp. 268–280.

  • Fawkes, Alfred (1913). "The Ideas of Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: Studies in Modernism. London: Smith, Elder & Co., pp. 447–468.
  • Gardiner, A.G. (1914). "Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: Pillars of Society. London: James Nisbett & Co., Limited.
  • Hamel, F.

    (1903). "The Scenes of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Novels," The Bookman, pp. 144–152.

  • James, Henry (1893). "Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: Essays in London and Elsewhere. Recent York: Harper & Brothers Publishers.
  • Lederer, Clara (1951). "Mary Arnold Fall out and the Victorian Ideal". Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

    6 (3): 201–208. doi:10.2307/3044175. JSTOR 3044175.

  • Lovett, Robert M (1919). "Mary in Wonderland". The Dial. 66: 463–465.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W (1903). "The Work of Mrs. Humphry Ward". The North American Review. 176 (557): 481–489. JSTOR 25119382.
  • MacFall, Haldane (1904).

    "Literary Portraits: Mrs. Humphry Ward". The Canadian Magazine. 23: 497–499.

  • Murry, John Middleton (1918). "The Prudish Solitude". The Living Age. 299: 680–682.
  • Norton-Smith, J (1968). "An Begin to Mrs. Humphry Ward, Novelist". Essays in Criticism.

    18 (4): 420–428. doi:10.1093/eic/xviii.4.420.

  • Olcott, Charles S. (1914). "The Country of Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: The Lure check the Camera. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • Phillips, Roland (1903). "Mrs. Humphry Ward". The Lamp. 26 (3): 17–20. PMID 5192334.
  • Smith, Esther Marian Greenwell (1980).

    Mrs. Humphry Ward. Boston: Twayne Publishers.

  • Sutherland, John (1988). "A Girl in the Bodleian: Contour Ward's Room of Her Own," Browning Institute Studies, Vol. 16, Victorian Learning, pp. 169–179.
  • Sutton-Ramspeck, Beth (1990). "The Personal Is Poetical: Crusader Criticism and Mary Ward's Readings of the Brontës".

    Victorian Studies. 34 (1): 55–75.

  • Trevelyan, Janet Penrose (1923). The Life of Wife. Humphry Ward. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
  • Walters, J. Royalty (1912). Mrs. Humphry Ward: Irregular Work and Influence. London: Infantile. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.

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