What is left of the autobiographies consists of scattered fragments.
qtd. in
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 402
After her confessor Father Roger Lee
told her to set down in writing all that I could remember or call to mind...
politics
Mary Ward
Her plan at once sparked opposition. On 26 May 1613 the English Ambassador at Brussels wrote viciously against the women to James I
, and hostility escalated over the next two years.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 366-7, 291-2, 302, 318
Textual Production
Mary Ward
MW
sent a letter to the Jesuit Father Roger Lee
which commentator Jeanne Cover
calls from its topic the Estate of Justice.
Cover, Jeanne. Love—the Driving Force. Marquette University Press, 1997.