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Image:MaryAugustaWard.jpg|right|thumbnail|Mary Augusta Ward Image:Huxley-Arnold family tree.png|thumb|right|Huxley and Arnold family tree.Mary Augusta Ward (nee Arnold; June 11 1851 – March 26, 1920), was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1851. She was the daughter of Tom Arnold (academic)|Tom Arnold, a professor of literature and Julia Sorrell. Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather had been Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. Her sister, also called Julia, married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas Huxley and their sons were Julian Huxley|Julian and Aldous Huxley. As a young lady Mary married Humphry "Thomas" Ward, a writer/editor. Mary Augusta Ward began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 under the title Milly and Olly. Her novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian era|Victorian values she herself practised. Her popularity spread beyond Great Britain to the United States. According to the New York Times, her book Lady Rose's Daughter was List of bestselling novels in the United States|the bestselling novel in the United States in 1903 in literature|1903 as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905 in literature|1905. Her most popular novel by far was the religious "novel with a purpose" 'Robert Elesmere'. Mrs. Ward helped establish an organization for working and teaching among the poor and was one of the founders of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League in 1908. In this latter vein, some of her writings were under the name "Mrs. Humphry Ward." In the summer of 1908 she was asked by George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and William Cremer to become the first president of Britain’s Anti-Suffrage League. Ward agreed and took on the job creating editing the Anti-Suffrage Review. Using her writing skills she published a large number of articles on the subject and two of her novels, The Testing of Diana Mallory and a Delia Blanchflower, were used as platform's to criticize the suffragettes. In a 1909 article in The Times, Ward wrote that constitutional, legal, financial, military, and international problems were problems only men could solve. However, she came to promote the idea of women having a voice in local government and other rights that the men's anti-suffrage movement would not tolerate. During World War I, she was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to write a series of articles to explain to Americans what was happening in Britain during the war. Mary Augusta Ward died in London, England, and was interred at Aldbury in Hertfordshire. Image:Milly and Olly - Project Gutenberg 13337.jpg|thumbnail|right|The cover of Milly and Olly, illustrated by Ruth M. Hallock and published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1914
Category:1851 births|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:1920 deaths|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:People of Hobart|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:English novelists|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:Unitarians|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:Women of the Victorian era|Ward, Mary Augusta Category:Women writers|Ward, Mary Augusta This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mary Augusta Ward".
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