Prolific English novelist, critic, journalist, memoirist, settlement house organizer, and opponent of women's suffrage who was the author of Robert Elsmere (1888), one of the most famous religious novels of the 19th century . Name variations: Mary Augusta Arnold (1851–1871); Mary Augusta Ward (1871–1920); Mrs. Humphry Ward (in all publications). Born Mary Augusta Arnold in Hobart Town, Tasmania, on June 11, 1851; died in London, England, on March 24, 1920; eldest of eight children of Thomas Arnold (second son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, headmaster at Rugby) and Julia (Sorrell or Sorell) Arnold (1826–1888); sister of Julia Arnold Huxley (1862–1908); married Thomas Humphry Ward, in 1872; children: Dorothy Ward (b. 1874); Arnold (b. 1876); Janet Ward (b. 1879).
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