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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold) (1851-1920), Novelist, philanthropist and political lobbyist; wife of (Thomas) Humphrey Ward

Sitter associated with 32 portraits
The daughter of Thomas Arnold, Mary Augusta Ward took an active interest in social work for London's poor and in women's education. She embodied her views in her best known novel Robert Elsmere, 1888, which excited great public interest, the sales of the first three editions amounting to 70,500 in the United Kingdom alone. She married Thomas Humphry Ward, fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1872. In her later life, however, she became a vigorous opponent to the women's suffrage movement.

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
albumen print, 1872
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Julian Russell Story
oil on canvas, 1889
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
NPG x46028

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative
NPG x46029

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
half-plate glass negative
NPG x81612

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1886
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1886
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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, circa 1886
NPG x96257

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Eglington & Co
sepia carbon print on blue card mount, published 1889
NPG Ax5470

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Mrs Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward, née Arnold)

by W. & D. Downey
carbon print, published 1890
NPG x27266

Category
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Social Welfare and Reform
Groups
Novelists and authors
Women writers
Place
London