Miss Bretherton

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. Raised in a distinguished intellectual family atmosphere, Mrs. Ward was the niece of the poet Matthew Arnold and the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. Her prolific writing career spann...