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She was born Mary Arnold on June 11, 1851, at Hobart Town, Tasmania. Her father, son of Dr. Thomas Arnold and younger brother of Matthew Arnold, brought his family to England in 1856.
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Mary Augusta Ward 11 June 1851 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists.Mary was the daughter of Tom Arnold, a professor of literature, and Julia Sorrell. Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather Thomas Arnold,the famous headmaster of Rugby School. Her sister Julia married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas Huxley, and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley.Mary's father Tom Arnold was appointed inspector of schools in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and commenced his role on 15 January 1850. Tom Arnold was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 12 January 1856, which made him so unpopular in his job (and with his wife) that he resigned and left for England with his family in July 1856. Mary Arnold had her fifth birthday the month before they left, and had no further connection with Tasmania. Tom Arnold was ratified as chair of English literature at the contemplated Catholic university, Dublin The Arnolds and the Huxleys were an important influence on British intellectual life.
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She was born Mary Arnold on June 11, 1851, at Hobart Town, Tasmania. Her father, son of Dr. Thomas Arnold and younger brother of Matthew Arnold, brought his family to England in 1856.
She was educated at various boarding schools.
Her first novel, Robert Elsmere (1888), describes an Anglican priest who rejects miracles and leaves the Church to organize a settlement house and found a new faith with a human Christ. Response to the novel was tremendous: Gladstone publicly decried it, over 500, 000 copies were sold in the United Kingdom, and over 1, 000, 000 in the United States. It spread the century's great religious controversy on the historical authenticity of scripture and inspired the foundation of one of the first London settlement houses, later named after her, for which Mrs. Ward worked all her life.
Many of her 23 novels, written in the next 31 years, were almost as popular: The History of David Grieve (1892), Lady Rose's Daughter (1903), and The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) were best sellers in the United States.
She was compared to George Eliot and admired for her characterization. Henry James, her lifelong friend, and George Meredith particularly praised Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898) and Eleanor (1900).
Family connections with the Arnolds, Huxleys, and Trevelyans, her husband's career, and her fame placed her in the intellectual center of her day, of whose problems she is a faithful fictional recorder.
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In 1872 Mary married Thomas Humphry Ward and began writing reviews. Her husband became an editor of the London Times, and in 1881 the Wards moved to London.