The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward

Those who visited Mrs. Ward at Stocks during the later years of the War were wont to fasten upon any younger members of the family who happened to be there, to declare that Mrs....

Three volumes, printed as closely as were those of _Robert Elsmere_, penetrated somewhat slowly among the fraternity of reviewers. The _Scotsman_ and the _Morning Post_ were the...

Mrs. Ward's feeling about the Germans, before the thunderbolt of 1914, had been one of sincere respect and admiration for a nation of patient brain-workers who, she believed, we...

The conversations with Stopford Brooke and Lord Carlisle mentioned in the last chapter contained the germ of all that public work which was to claim henceforth so large a share...

Mrs. Ward, as is well known, did not believe in Women's Suffrage. She had heard the subject discussed from her earliest days at Oxford, ever since the time when the first Women'...

_Helbeck of Bannisdale_ is probably that one among Mrs. Ward's books on which her fame as a novelist will stand or fall. Though it sold less in England and much less in America...

In spite of the close and continuous toil that she put into the writing of _Eleanor_ during the year 1899, Mrs. Ward found time, in the course of that year, for an effort of lit...

It was in the early summer of 1880 that Mr. Ward was first approached by Mr. Chenery, the editor, with a suggestion that he should join the staff of _The Times_. The proposal wa...

Both _Lady Rose's Daughter_ and _The Marriage of William Ashe_, which appeared in 1903 and 1905 respectively, are novels of London life, reflecting in their minor characters, th...

For some two or three years before the opening of the new Settlement, a Saturday morning "playroom" for children had been held at Marchmont Hall, mainly under the direction of M...

The acquisition of Stocks in the summer of 1892 was a landmark in Mrs. Ward's life for more reasons than one, for it coincided with the advent of a mysterious ailment, or disabi...

Stocks, during the first sixteen years that Mrs. Ward inhabited it, was a dear but provoking house. Built in 1772 by the Duncombe family, at the expense of the earlier manor-hou...

When Tom Arnold settled with his family at Oxford, in 1865, the old University was still labouring under the repercussions, the thrills and counter-thrills, of the famous Moveme...

Mrs. Ward had often been assured by her friends and admirers in the United States that if she would but visit them she would find such a welcome as would stagger all her previou...

Is the study of heredity a science or a pure romance? For the unlearned at least I like to think it is the latter, since no law that the Professors ever formulated can explain t...

Mrs. Ward at Stocks--Her _Recollections_--The Government Grant for Play Centres--The Cripples Clause in Mr. Fisher's Education Act--The War in 1918--Italy--The Armistice--Mrs. W...

Beginnings of the Work for Children--The Recreation School--The Work for Adults--Finance--Mrs. Ward's interest in Crippled Children--Plans for Organizing a School--She obtains t...

Mrs. Ward and the Brontës--George Smith and Charlotte--The Prefaces to the Brontë Novels--André Chevrillon--M. Jusserand--Mrs. Ward in Italy and Paris--The Translation of Jülich...

Mrs. Ward's feeling about Germany--Letter to André Chevrillon--Re-organization of the Passmore Edwards Settlement--President Roosevelt's Letter--Talk with Sir Edward Grey--Visit...

Mrs. Ward's Social Life--Her Physical Delicacy--Power of Work--American Friends--F. W. Whitridge--Plans for Extending Recreation Schools for Children to other Districts--Opening...

Early Feeling against Women's Suffrage--The "Protest" in the _Nineteenth Century_--Advent of the Suffragettes--Foundation of the Anti-Suffrage League--Women in Local Government-...

Mrs. Ward much Crippled by Illness--The Writing of _Marcella_--Stocks Cottage--Reception of the Book--Quarrel with the Libraries--_The Story of Bessie Costrell_--Friends at Stoc...

Rebuilding of Stocks--Mrs. Ward's Love for the Place--Her Way of Life and Work--Greek Literature--Politics--The General Elections of 1910--Visitors--Nephews and Nieces--Grandchi...

Origins of _Helbeck_--Mrs. Ward at Levens Hall--Her Views on Roman Catholicism--Creighton and Henry James--Reception of _Helbeck_--Letter to Creighton--Mrs. Ward and the Unitari...

Oxford in the 'Sixties--Mark Pattison and Canon Liddon--Mary Arnold and the Bodleian--First Attempts at Writing--Marriage with Mr. T. Humphry Ward--Thomas Arnold's Second Conver...

Mr. Ward takes work on _The Times_--Removal to London--The House in Russell Square--London Life and Friends--Work for John Morley--Letters--Writer's Cramp--_Miss Bretherton_--Bo...

Foundation of University Hall--Mr. Wicksteed as Warden--The Opening--Lectures--Social Work at Marchmont Hall--Growing Importance of the Latter--Mr. Passmore Edwards Promises Hel...

Invitations to visit America--Mr. and Mrs. Ward and Dorothy sail in March, 1908--New York--Philadelphia--Washington--Mr. Roosevelt--Boston--Canada--Lord Grey and Sir William van...

Reviews--Mr. Gladstone's Interest--His Interview with Mrs. Ward at Oxford--Their Correspondence--Article in the _Nineteenth Century_--Circulation of _Robert Elsmere_--Letters--V...