Mrs humphrey ward biography for kids

Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) was born in Hobart, Tasmania into a veritable Victorian dynasty:  the Arnolds.

Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June – 24 March ) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

Ward worked tirelessly for social improvement; she was responsible for the foundation of the Invalid Children's School () and for the establishment of.

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Mrs Humphry Ward ().

Her writing career spanned over forty years and included 25 novels, a half-dozen nonfictional works, a two-volume autobiography, and numerous essays and.

Her grandfather was the infamous Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby and her uncle was Matthew Arnold, affectionately known as Uncle Matt. Dr Arnold had an astonishingly strong work ethic, much parodied by Lytton Strachey in Eminent Victorians, and this both inspired and alarmed his family.

Although he rather undermined his own teachings by dying at the age of just 47, he continued to exert a powerful influence over the other Arnolds.

As is often the case, his strength of character was not inherited by his eldest son, Tom (Mary’s father), who was permanent state of vacillation.

His conversion to Catholicism scuppered his chances of a plum job in Australia, and the family were forced to move to England. His outraged wife vented her frustration by hurling a brick through the window of the local Catholic cathedral.

Although Tom finally landed a job