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Mary Augusta Ward Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jun 11, 1851
  • Died: Mar 24, 1920

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.

Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists. Mary was the daughter of Tom Arnold, a professor of literature, and Julia Sorrell. Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. Her sister Julia married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas Huxley, and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley. The Arnolds and the Huxleys were an important influence on British intellectual life.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. marriage

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. marriage

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. teacher

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