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Encyclopedia entry: Ward, Mary Augusta
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Ward, Mary Augusta, better known as
Mrs Humphry Ward
(1851–1920), was granddaughter of T.
Arnold
of Rugby. In 1872 she married Thomas Humphry Ward. Her most famous novel,
Robert Elsmere
(1888), is in part a vivid evocation of the Oxford of
Pater
,
Pattison
, and T. H.
Green
, and of the many varieties of religious faith and doubt which succeeded the ferment of the
Oxford Movement
. Its protagonist, an earnest but questioning clergyman, resigns his orders for a life of social service in the East End, to the distress of his devout wife Catherine. The novel was reviewed by
Gladstone
...
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