Mary Ward
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Standard Name: Ward, Mary
Birth Name: Joan Ward
Self-constructed Name: Mary Ward
Self-constructed Name: Marie
Self-constructed Name: Felice
Self-constructed Name: Phillis
Self-constructed Name: Margery
Self-constructed Name: The Old Woman
Self-constructed Name: Maria della Guardia
, seventeenth-century religious reformer and founder of a religious Order, used her writings (letters, autobiography, prayers, notes, and speeches) as a means to forward her radical ecclesiastical administration. She also wrote devotional works for her own spiritual life, and familiar letters.