Mrs. Humphry Ward

Mrs. Humphry Ward
Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Árbol genealógico de los Arnold y Huxley.

Mary Augusta Arnold (11 de junio de 1851 – 26 de marzo de 1920), escritora británica que publicó con su nombre de casada, Mrs. Humphry Ward.

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Mary Augusta Arnold nació en Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) en 1851. Era hija de Tom Arnold, un profesor de literatura, y Julia Sorrell. Su tío era el poeta Matthew Arnold y su abuelo había sido Thomas Arnold, el famoso director de la escuela Rugby School. Su hermana, Julia, se casó con Leonard Huxley, el hijo de Thomas Henry Huxley y sus hijos fueron Julian y Aldous Huxley. De joven, Mary se casó con Humphry "Thomas" Ward, escritor y editor.

Mary Augusta Ward comenzó escribiendo artículos para revistas mientras preparaba un libro infantil, Milly and Olly, publicado en 1881. Sus novelas tienen un fuerte contenido religioso, en relación a la moral victoriana que ella misma practicaba. Su popularidad alcanzó los Estados Unidos, donde sus novelas Lady Rose's Daughter y The Marriage of William Ashe fueron las más vendidas en 1903 y 1905 respectivamente. Su novela más famosa es Robert Elsmere.

Obra Literaria

  • Milly and Olly - (1881)
  • Miss Bretherton - (1884)
  • Robert Elsmere - (1888)
  • Marcella - (1894)
  • Sir George Tressady - (1896)
  • Helbeck of Bannisdale - (1898)
  • Eleanor - (1900)
  • Lady Rose's Daughter - (1903)
  • The Marriage of William Ashe - (1905)
  • Fenwick's Career - (1906)
  • The Testing of Diana Mallory - (1908)
  • Daphne - (1909)
  • Canadian Born - (1910)
  • The Case of Richard Meynell - (1911)
  • The Mating of Lydia - (1913)
  • The Coryston Family - (1913)
  • Delia Blanchflower - (1914)
  • Eltham House - (1915)
  • A Great Success - (1915)
  • England's Effort, Six Letters to an American Friend - (1916)
  • Lady Connie - (1916)
  • Towards the Goal - (1917)
  • Missing - (1917)
  • The War and Elizabeth - (1918)
  • A Writer's Recollections - (1918)
  • Fields of Victory - (1919)
  • Helena - (1919)
  • Harvest - (1920)

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  • WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY —    English authoress, born at Hobart Town; is a niece of Matthew Arnold; translated Amiel s Journal, a suggestive record, but is best known by her romance of Robert Elsmere, published in 1888, a work which was a help to some weak people and an… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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