Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. Read full biography of Mary Augusta Ward →
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a... →
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in... →
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the... →
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their... →