Mrs Humphry Ward : eminent Victorian, pre-eminent Edwardian
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Mrs Humphry Ward : eminent Victorian, pre-eminent Edwardian
(Oxford lives, . Oxford paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, 1991
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Bibliography: p. [420]-422
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Best-selling novelist and tireless philanthropist, Mary Ward's furiously active public career belied an unhappy, often tragic private life. Capturing the industrious fussiness of a remarkable woman, this biography also offers perceptive insights into the restrictions placed upon women at the turn of the century.
Table of Contents
- The girlhood of Mary Arnold: 1851-1860
- Schooldays: 1860-1867
- Oxford: 1867-1871
- Stabs at fiction: 1867-1871
- Marriage: 1870-1872
- Marriage and Oxford: 1872-1878
- Fighting back: 1878-1880
- London: 1880-1886
- The right book: 1883-1884
- The Elsmere ordeal: 1884-1888
- Elsmere mania: 1888
- The fiction machine: 1890-1900
- Families - the Arnolds: 1890-1900
- Families - the Wards: 1890-1900
- Homes: 1888-1900
- Respectable genius: 1890-1900
- Health: 1890-1900
- The Passmore Edwards settlement: 1892-1900
- Eleanor : 1900
- Best-selling novelist, failed dramatist: 1901-1905
- Family matters: 1900-1905
- Mid-Edwardian: 1906
- The Testing of Diana Mallory : 1907
- The new world: 1908
- Anti-suffragist: 1909
- Arnold Ward, MP: 1910-1911
- Calamities: 1912-1914
- The Wards and war: 1914-1917
- Soldier in skirts: 1916-1917
- The end: 1918-1920.
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