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Mary Augusta Ward

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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. [1]

81 relations: Adult education, Aldbury, Aldous Huxley, Arnold Bennett, Arnold Ward, Bloomsbury, Blue plaque, Boarding school, Brasenose College, Oxford, British literature, Catholic Church, Cecil Hepworth, Charles Edward Montague, Children's literature, Edward Sloman, Eleanor (novel), Florence Nightingale, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Grace Kimmins, Greek language, HathiTrust, Helbeck of Bannisdale, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Henry James, Henry Wace (priest), Hertfordshire, Historical criticism, Hobart, Hugh Ford (director), Huxley family, James Young (director), John Passmore Edwards, Julia Stephen, Julian Huxley, Lady Connie, Lady Rose's Daughter, Lady Rose's Daughter (novel), Latin, Leonard Huxley (writer), Local government, London, Lucy Bethia Walford, Marcella (novel), Mary Ward Centre, Matthew Arnold, Missing (1918 film), Octavia Hill, Order of the British Empire, Oscar Wilde, Oxford, ..., Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States, Randal Cremer, Robert Elsmere, Rugby School, Settlement movement, Shifnal, Shropshire, Sir George Tressady, Stocks House, Suffragette, Tasmania, Tavistock Square, The Case of Richard Meynell, The History of David Grieve, The Marriage of William Ashe, The Times, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Henry Huxley, Thomas Humphry Ward, Tom Arnold (literary scholar), Trench warfare, Van Diemen's Land, Victorian morality, Virginia Woolf, Western Front (World War I), William Smith (lexicographer), Women's History Review, Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, World War I, 1919 New Year Honours. Expand index (31 more) »

Adult education

Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.

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Aldbury

Aldbury is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the Bulbourne valley close to Ashridge Park.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.

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Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer.

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Arnold Ward

Arnold Sandwith Ward (1876–1950) was an English journalist and Conservative Party politician.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC), officially The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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British literature

British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cecil Hepworth

Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Charles Edward Montague

Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928), was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Edward Sloman

Edward Sloman (19 July 1886, London - 29 September 1972, Woodland Hills, California) was an English silent film director, actor, screenwriter and radio broadcaster.

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Eleanor (novel)

Eleanor is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1900.

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, and commonly as Lord Curzon, was a British Conservative statesman.

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Grace Kimmins

Dame Grace Thyrza Kimmins, DBE (née Hannam; 6 May 1870 – 3 March 1954) was a British writer who created charities that worked with children who had disabilities.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

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Helbeck of Bannisdale

Helbeck of Bannisdale is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1898.

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Henry Wace (priest)

Henry Wace (10 December 18369 January 1924) was Principal of King's College, London (1883–1897) and Dean of Canterbury (1903–1924).

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Historical criticism

Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text".

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Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Hugh Ford (director)

Hugh Ford (February 5, 1868 – 1952) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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Huxley family

The Huxley family is a British family of which several members have excelled in science, medicine, arts, and literature.

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James Young (director)

James Young (January 1, 1872 – June 9, 1948) was an American film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era.

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John Passmore Edwards

John Passmore Edwards (24 March 1823 – 22 April 1911)ODNB article by A. J. A. Morris, ‘Edwards, John Passmore (1823–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 15 Nov 2007.

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Julia Stephen

Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; 7 February 1846 – 5 May 1895) was a celebrated English woman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Lady Connie

Lady Connie is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1916.

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Lady Rose's Daughter

Lady Rose's Daughter is a 1920 American silent drama film starring Elsie Ferguson and David Powell with directing being from Hugh Ford.

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Lady Rose's Daughter (novel)

Lady Rose's Daughter is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward that was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1903.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leonard Huxley (writer)

Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 2 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor.

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Local government

A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lucy Bethia Walford

Lucy Bethia (Colquhoun) Walford (17 April 1845 – 11 May 1915) was a Scottish novelist and artist, who wrote 45 books, the majority of them "light-hearted domestic comedies".

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Marcella (novel)

Marcella is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1894.

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Mary Ward Centre

The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre is part of the Mary Ward Settlement, in Queen Square, London.

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

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Missing (1918 film)

Missing is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by James Young and written by Mary Augusta Ward, J. Stuart Blackton, and James Young.

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Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States

This is a list of lists of bestselling novels in the United States as determined by Publishers Weekly.

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Randal Cremer

Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was an English Liberal Member of Parliament, a pacifist, and a leading advocate for international arbitration.

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Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward published in 1888.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Settlement movement

The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US.

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Shifnal

Shifnal is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Sir George Tressady

Sir George Tressady is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward.

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Stocks House

Stocks manor house is a large Georgian mansion, built in 1773.

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Suffragette

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Tavistock Square

Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

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The Case of Richard Meynell

The Case of Richard Meynell is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1911.

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The History of David Grieve

The History of David Grieve is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1892.

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The Marriage of William Ashe

The Marriage of William Ashe is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward that was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1905.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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Thomas Humphry Ward

(Thomas) Humphry Ward (9 November 1845 – 6 May 1926) was an English author and journalist, best known as the husband of the author Mary Augusta Ward, who wrote under the name Mrs. Humphry Ward.

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Tom Arnold (literary scholar)

Tom Arnold (30 November 1823 – 12 November 1900), also known as Thomas Arnold the Younger, was an English literary scholar.

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Trench warfare

Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

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Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.

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Victorian morality

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living during the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), the Victorian era, and of the moral climate of Great Britain in the mid-19th century in general.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.

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William Smith (lexicographer)

Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer.

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Women's History Review

Women's History Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of women's history published by Routledge.

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Women's National Anti-Suffrage League

The Women's National Anti-suffrage League (1908–18) was established in London on 21 July 1908.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1919 New Year Honours

The 1919 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Augusta_Ward

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