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Mrs Humphry Ward - Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian (Hardcover)
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Mrs Humphry Ward - Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian (Hardcover)
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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.
In Mrs. Humphry Ward, John Sutherland explores a goldmine of
materials never before available to recapture a fascinating life,
one in which extraordinary achievements were often overshadowed by
private misfortune. Sutherland describes how Ward's parents'
marriage was shattered by her father's religious peregrinations (an
Anglican, he converted to Roman Catholicism, then returned to the
Church of England, then became a Catholic again), how her own
remarkable success placed considerable stress on her marriage, and
how all her resources (both financial and emotional) went to
support a renegade, spendthrift, and disappointing son. And he also
sheds light on one of the great paradoxes of this accomplished
woman's life--that she led the fight to block woman's
suffrage.
Throughout, Sutherland writesmovingly of the private life of a
remarkable public figure. A fascinating study of how much a woman
could and could not do in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, this
engaging biography illuminates the intellectual climate of the late
19th century.
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