Mrs. Humphry Ward Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian |
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Author:
| Sutherland, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-818587-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1990 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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"A prodigiously detailed biography...important...for the light it sheds on an era and on the influential Arnold family as a whole....Recommended"--Booklist. 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...
More Description"A prodigiously detailed biography...important...for the light it sheds on an era and on the influential Arnold family as a whole....Recommended"--Booklist.
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. She was a remarkably successful novelist, as well as the first woman reporter to enter the trenches in 1916. In this extensively research biography, John Sutherland explores her private and public lives, offering a new understanding of her work.