Mary Arnold's aunt Frances Arnold
taught her to read and helped to tame her temper.
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Matthew Arnold
In 1851 MA
married Fanny Lucy Wightman
. Together they had six children, three of whom predeceased him.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Residence
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold (later MAW
) lived with her paternal grandmother and her aunt Frances
at Fox How, Ambleside, in the Lake District, after her parents settled in Dublin.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
11-12, 13, 15
Textual Features
Mary Augusta Ward
Her signatories—who mostly owed their eminence to their position as the the wives of prominent men—included Mrs Leslie Stephen
, Mrs Matthew Arnold
, Mrs Kegan Paul
(who was a novelist in her own right),...
Timeline
June 1889: Nineteenth Century published An Appeal against...
Building item
June 1889
Nineteenth Century published An Appeal against Female Suffrage by Mary Augusta Ward
, signed by 103 other women.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “An Appeal Against Female Suffrage”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
25
, June 1889, pp. 781-8.
Appeal
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.