Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor setting up a Settlement in London and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League.
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward, by Julian Russell Story, 1889
Mary Augusta Ward, 1914, by Henry Walter Barnett
Cover of Milly and Olly, illustrated by Ruth M. Hallock (1914)
The Mary Ward Centre is an adult education college in Stratford, London.
The centre, 1982-2023 in converted 18th-century houses at 42 Queen Square