CHAPTER XV

LAST YEARS: 1917-1920

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. Ward's third journey to France--Visit to British Headquarters--Strasburg, Verdun and Rheims--Paris--Ill-health--The Writing of _Fields of Victory_--The last Summer at Stocks--Mrs. Ward and the "Enabling Bill"--Breakdown in Health--Removal to London--Mr. Ward's Operation--Her Death 288-309

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Mary Ward at Twenty-five. From a water-colour painting by Mrs. A. H. Johnson _Frontispiece_

Borough Farm. From a water-colour painting by Mrs. Humphry Ward 45

Mrs. Ward in 1889. From a photograph by Bassano 82

Mrs. Ward in 1898. From a photograph by Miss Ethel M. Arnold 149

Mrs. Ward and Henry James at Stocks. From a photograph by Miss Dorothy Ward 252

Mrs. Ward beside the Lake of Lucerne. From a photograph by Miss Dorothy Ward 262