Mrs humphrey ward biography of williams

Norham Gardens in North Oxford(Bradmore Road meets Norham Gardens and is part of the same leafy North Oxford development favoured by dons).

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; her sister Julia would marry into the Huxley clan.

Mrs humphrey ward biography of williams

II. Writing Career

Norham Gardens in North Oxford(Bradmore Road meets Norham Gardens and is part of the same leafy North Oxford development favoured by dons)

III. Philanthropy and Public Life

IV. Death and Later Reputation

In her own time, under her formal married name, she would be as famous as any of these, probably more so: "It is impossible to estimate the number of people who have read Mrs. Ward's books," wrote a contemporary biographer, "and it is equally impossible to find an English man or woman, of fair education, who has never read any of them.

There is therefore no need for wonderment at the enormous influence they have exerted, it is the natural outcome of an immense success" (Walters 202). As was the case with some of her contemporaries, Ward's reputation declined dramatically wit