- Mrs. Humphrey Ward
- nounEnglish writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)• Syn: ↑Ward, ↑Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
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WARD, Mary Augusta, (Mrs Humphrey Ward), (1851-1920) — novelist was born at Hobart, on 11 June 1851. Her father, Thomas Arnold (1823 1900), the second son of Arnold of Rugby, came to Tasmania early in 1850 and organized its primary education. There he met and married in June 1850 Julia Sorell,… … Dictionary of Australian Biography
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (Arnold) — (b. 1851) Novelist. Milly and Olly (1881), Miss Bretherton (1886), Robert Elsmere (1888), The History of David Grieve (1892), Marcella (1894), Sir George Tressady (1896), Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898), Lady Rose s Daughter (1903), The Marriage… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
Mary Augusta Arnold Ward — noun English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women s suffrage movement (1851 1920) • Syn: ↑Ward, ↑Mrs. Humphrey Ward • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author … Useful english dictionary
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