It is dedicated to her husband
in memory of their wedding day.
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel M. Arnold
EA's uncle Matthew Arnold
, a leading writer of the Victorian period, was the author of such texts as Culture and Anarchy. Her sister Mary Augusta, known as Mrs Humphry Ward
, was one...
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
56, 43-4
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Augusta Ward
The only son of MAW
and her husband
was born; he was christened with his mother's maiden name of Arnold
.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
59, 410
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Augusta Ward
MAW
's husband
was offered a permanent position as political commentator for the Times.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
80
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Augusta Ward
MAW
's husband
was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
417
Literary responses
Felicia Hemans
As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in...
Publishing
Mary Augusta Ward
A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold
and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward
, was privately printed.
Wilkes, Joanne. “Mary Ward as Critic of Matthew Arnold”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Nov. 2011, pp. 453-67.
456 and n7
Textual Production
A. Mary F. Robinson
In the same year, 1894, AMFR
contributed critical introductions to selections by Felicia Hemans
and Joanna Baillie
in The English Poets, edited by Humphry Ward
(husband of the well-known novelist
).
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
4: ix-x
Timeline
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...
Writing climate item
1880
Thomas Humphry Ward
published with Macmillan
a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
65
Texts
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.