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Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851–1920)

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Obras por Mrs. Humphry Ward

Marcella (1894) 172 exemplares
Robert Elsmere (1888) 104 exemplares
Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898) 42 exemplares
Lady Rose's Daughter (1903) 35 exemplares
Eleanor (1900) 22 exemplares
The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) 20 exemplares
The History of David Grieve (1892) 17 exemplares
The Testing of Diana Mallory (1908) 15 exemplares
Amiel's Journal (1889) 14 exemplares
The Coryston Family (2007) 14 exemplares
The Case of Richard Meynell (2007) 13 exemplares
England's Effort (2017) 12 exemplares
Lady Merton, Colonist (1910) 11 exemplares
Fenwick's Career (1906) 11 exemplares
Harvest (1920) 8 exemplares
Sir George Tressady (1911) 8 exemplares
Lady Connie (1916) 8 exemplares
The Mating of Lydia (2007) 8 exemplares
Marriage à la Mode (1909) 8 exemplares
Delia Blanchflower (2007) 7 exemplares
Missing (Dodo Press) (2006) 7 exemplares
The story of Bessie Costrell (2007) 7 exemplares
Milly and Olly (2012) 6 exemplares
Miss Bretherton (2006) 6 exemplares
A great success (2007) 6 exemplares
Helena (1919) 5 exemplares
Elizabeth's Campaign (1918) 4 exemplares
Eltham house (1915) 4 exemplares
Towards the Goal (2012) 4 exemplares
Marcella, Volume II (1894) 4 exemplares
Marcella, Volume I 3 exemplares
A writer's recollections (2007) 3 exemplares
Robert Elsmere, Vol I 2 exemplares
SIR GEORGE TRESSADY , Vol. 2 (1896) 2 exemplares
Robert Elsmere Volume II (1888) 1 exemplar
Diana Mallory 1 exemplar
Fenwick's Career Volume 1 (2012) 1 exemplar
Manners for Men (1982) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

A Inquilina de Wildfell Hall (1848) — Introdução, algumas edições7,475 exemplares
Shirley (1849) — Introdução, algumas edições4,080 exemplares
The Professor (1857) — Introdução, algumas edições2,736 exemplares
Agnes Grey / Wuthering Heights (1873) — Introdução, algumas edições45 exemplares
Life and Works of the Brontë Sisters (Thornfield Edition) (1900) — Prefácio — 3 exemplares
Joubert: a Selection from His Thoughts (1898) — Prefácio — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Arnold, Mary Augusta
Ward, Mary Augusta
Outros nomes
Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold
Arnold, Mary Augusta
Data de nascimento
1851-06-11
Data de falecimento
1920-03-24
Localização do túmulo
Aldbury, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
País (no mapa)
UK
Local de nascimento
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Local de falecimento
London, England, UK
Locais de residência
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Ocupações
novelist
autobiographer
educational reformer
war correspondent
Relações
Ward, Thomas Humphry (husband)
Arnold, Thomas (younger-father, elder-grandfather)
Arnold, Matthew (uncle)
Huxley, Leonard (brother-in-law)
Huxley, Julian (nephew)
Huxley, Aldous (nephew) (mostrar todos 8)
Huxley, Matthew (great-nephew)
Arnold, William Delafield (uncle)
Organizações
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League
Evening Play Centre Committee
Mary Ward Settlement (formerly Passmore Edwards Settlement)

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Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, to a prominent British intellectual and literary family. Her father Tom Arnold was a literary scholar and professor of literature, her paternal uncle was poet Matthew Arnold, and her paternal grandfather was Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School. Julian and Aldous Huxley were her nephews. In 1856, her father moved the family to Ireland and she was sent to various boarding schools for her education. At 16, she went to live with her parents at Oxford, where her father had become a lecturer in history at the university. In 1872, she married Humphry Ward, a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and a writer. In 1877, she wrote a large number of entries for the Dictionary of Christian Biography. She began contributing articles to Macmillan's Magazine and the Pall Mall Gazette while writing a children's book, Milly and Olly, or a Holiday Among the Mountains, published in 1881. Her works were published under her married name Mrs. Humphry Ward. Her controversial and successful novel for adults Robert Elsmere (1888) was followed by more than 20 other novels, and by the end of the 19th-century, she had become a famous bestselling author. She also worked for social reform and helped establish adult educational colleges first at Marchmont Hall and later at Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury, now known as the Mary Ward Centre. She opposed the women's suffrage movement but favored women's participation in local government. During World War I, she visited the front in France and reported on it in three books, including England's Effort—Six Letters to an American Friend (1916) and Towards the Goal (1917), with a foreword by former President Theodore Roosevelt. She published her autobiography, A Writer’s Recollections, in 1918.

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Litrvixen | 1 outra crítica | Jun 23, 2022 |
I enjoyed Mrs. Ward’s 1913 offering, but this anti-suffragette novel was hard to take. The eponymous character is a rich, beautiful, and charismatic young woman whose father has just died. But instead of inheriting her fortune outright, she’s been saddled with a guardian/trustee because her dying father correctly believed that she would devote all her money and all her to life to the cause of woman’s suffrage if she had control. Of course the guardian is a magnificent unmarried middle-aged man who is handsome, noble, etc etc, and sparks fly between him and Delia Blanchflower. Delia is under the sway of an unscrupulous older suffragette. They live together and are devoted to each other. Although it’s explained that the older woman only wants Delia’s money for the cause and doesn’t really care about her, she appears to get jealous of the guardian and basically cuts Delia off. There was a lot of stuff about how their group was blowing up mailboxes, which seemed ridiculous to me, but it turns out that suffragettes really did blow up mailboxes. One woman complains about how her former servant was sick and dying and wrote a letter to her, but it was blown up, so the servant died thinking her mistress didn’t care about her. (I learned from this book that the most important part of noblesse oblige is taking care of your servants when they’re sick.)

There are a number of anti-suffrage women role model characters in the book, and also a woman who believe that women should get the vote, but she doesn’t care if it’s in her lifetime or her daughter’s lifetime or neither, and that it’s wrong for women to do anything except patiently wait for the vote. The stuff that these women say makes absolutely no sense and reminds me of the stuff that people say today that makes absolutely no sense. It’s not about content, it’s about being dignified and an upstanding member of society. People just want everything to be comfy and pleasant. Anyway, there’s a beautiful old historic home that the suffragettes want to blow up (I’m assuming this is based on Lloyd George’s home that really was bombed) and in the end even though Delia and her guardian try to prevent it, the wicked suffragette lady sets it on fire, killing a little disabled girl who has no function in this book other than to be sacrificed—and the suffragette lady dies too. Is this book racist? Of course. Here’s a sample line: “From her face and figure the half savage, or Asiatic note, present in the physiognomy and complexions of her brothers and sisters, was entirely absent.”
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jollyavis | 1 outra crítica | Dec 14, 2021 |
FYI, the synopsis provided above is not an actual synopsis, it's just the first paragraph of the novel. The novel is actually about an aristocratic English family divided by politics and their fiery tempers, and the star-crossed romances they enter into. The mother, Lady Coryston, is a bossy domineering Conservative woman who (gasp!) has inherited her husband's estate and (gasp!) intends to interfere with English custom by not leaving it to her oldest son, two things that were outrageously crazy at the time. The oldest son, Lord Coryston aka Cory, is a radical Socialist who wants to inherit the estate so he can split it up into model farms, and he does everything he can to be a thorn in his mother's side. The daughter, can't remember her name, is interested in the Suffrage movement but what she really wants is a strong man to love her and show her what's right and wrong--could her fanatically religious neighbor be the one for her or would she be better off with the poor librarian? The other son, Arthur, a member of the House of Commons, lets his mother write his speeches and tell him what to do, but now he's fallen in love with the daughter of the Liberal opposition and if his mother finds out, she'll cream him. Then there's another son, James, who literally does nothing throughout the entire novel and I'm not sure why he is there. Then there's a couple who may be evicted from their farm because although they are legally married, one of them was previously (gasp!) divorced, meaning that they are living in S-I-N in a major way. When I turned the last page, I felt a little spasm of thankfulness that I am alive today and not 100 years ago. If you like Victorian/Edwardian novels, you will enjoy this one. Downton Abbey is hella boring and weird compared to this.

My brother said that when he was in graduate school studying English, Mrs. Humphry Ward was dismissed as a nobody; they didn’t read any of her books; and she wasn’t sufficiently rehabilitated to be given a first name. (Turns out she was Mary Augusta Ward.) But I liked this book and I’m looking forward to her 1914 offering. My brother was also told she was a Victorian so he could not believe she had a book in 1913. However, all English writers did not conveniently die at the same moment as Queen Victoria, so there was some overlap, and in fact two thirds of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s books were written in the Edwardian period. She did seem to have a kind of Victorian viewpoint, though. There was a strange timeless quality to this novel, and it’s hard to know when it was set. The House of Commons was debating a Land Bill and the aristocrats were very concerned about their “rights” and estates being taken from them, making it feel like 1830. But the main character was a Suffragist, which was accepted as a common viewpoint (although derided as wrong), making it seem more contemporary to 1913. The characters drove about in strange conveyances but I think I remember some cars. I guess it was probably set in 1913 but the ways of the English aristocracy are so peculiar and unchanging that everything was the same as in Victorian times.

The characters had political opinions ranging from Conservative to radical Socialist. I couldn’t figure out which platform the author agreed with, except that she seemed to think women should not vote but instead use their exquisite goodness to make the world a better place without meddling in politics.
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jollyavis | 1 outra crítica | Dec 14, 2021 |
FYI, the synopsis provided above is not an actual synopsis, it's just the first paragraph of the novel. The novel is actually about an aristocratic English family divided by politics and their fiery tempers, and the star-crossed romances they enter into. The mother, Lady Coryston, is a bossy domineering Conservative woman who (gasp!) has inherited her husband's estate and (gasp!) intends to interfere with English custom by not leaving it to her oldest son, two things that were outrageously crazy at the time. The oldest son, Lord Coryston aka Cory, is a radical Socialist who wants to inherit the estate so he can split it up into model farms, and he does everything he can to be a thorn in his mother's side. The daughter, can't remember her name, is interested in the Suffrage movement but what she really wants is a strong man to love her and show her what's right and wrong--could her fanatically religious neighbor be the one for her or would she be better off with the poor librarian? The other son, Arthur, a member of the House of Commons, lets his mother write his speeches and tell him what to do, but now he's fallen in love with the daughter of the Liberal opposition and if his mother finds out, she'll cream him. Then there's another son, James, who literally does nothing throughout the entire novel and I'm not sure why he is there. Then there's a couple who may be evicted from their farm because although they are legally married, one of them was previously (gasp!) divorced, meaning that they are living in S-I-N in a major way. When I turned the last page, I felt a little spasm of thankfulness that I am alive today and not 100 years ago. If you like Victorian/Edwardian novels, you will enjoy this one. Downton Abbey is hella boring and weird compared to this.… (mais)
 
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jollyavis | 1 outra crítica | Dec 14, 2021 |

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Obras
55
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Membros
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Popularidade
#38,721
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
13
ISBN
245
Línguas
2
Marcado como favorito
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