Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian

by John Sutherland

Book Overview

Victorian novelist Mary Ward, best known to her contemporaries as Mrs. Humphry Ward, was one of the most successful and complex women of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into the powerful but patriarchal dynasty of Thomas Arnold of Rugby, she lived at the center of an intellectual and cultural circle peopled by such eminent figures as Mark Pattison, Thomas Huxley, and Charles Darwin. Her novel Robert Elsmere (1888), the first in a series of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198185871
• ISBN13: 9780198185871
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"