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),...
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.