Mary Augusta Ward
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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. She was a staunch oppone
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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)
Robert Elsmere
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Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward published in 1888. It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James.
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…in the United States in 1903, as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905. Ward's most popular novel by far was the religious "novel with a purpose" Robert Elsmere, which portrayed the emotional conflict between the young pastor Elsmere and his wife, whose over-narrow orthodoxy brings her religious faith and their…
Title page from the American or Colonial Edition.