Bessie Costrell

Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Ward on June 11, 1851, in Hobart, Tasmania, was a renowned British novelist and social thinker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her maiden name was Arnold, a testimony to her prominent intellectual lineage as the niece of poet Matthew Arnold and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School. Ward's literary career began in t...