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Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian

Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian

Sutherland, John

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ISBN10: 0198185871
ISBN13: 9780198185871
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Oct 18 1990
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Victorian novelist Mary Ward, best known to her contemporaries as Mrs. Humphry Ward, was one of the most successful and complex women of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into the powerful but patriarchal dynasty of Thomas Arnold of Rugby, she lived at the center of an intellectual and cultural circle peopled by such eminent figures as Mark Pattison, Thomas Huxley, and Charles Darwin. Her novel Robert Elsmere (1888), the first in a series of bestsellers, earned her both unprecedented sums of money and the critical respect of such writers as Henry James. She helped found Somerville College, Oxford, the University's first institution of higher education of women, and helped create a number of play centers for the children of London's working poor. And as the first woman reporter to enter the trenches in 1916, she wrote articles that were instrumental in bringing America into the war.

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