biography
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Ward, Mary Augusta
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known as Mrs Humphry Ward
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| female
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| lived:
| (1851–1920)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, a niece of Matthew Arnold. The family returned to Britain in 1856 and, after attending private boarding schools, she joined them in Oxford. She moved to London in 1881, where she wrote for various periodicals. Her greatest success was the best-selling spiritual romance, Robert Elsmere, which inspired the foundation of a settlement for the London poor in Tavistock Square in 1897. Her later novels, all on social or religious issues, include Marcella (1894), Sir George Tressady (1896), and The Case of Richard Meynell (1911). |
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