Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
marriage writing fiction
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
should-have cities venice
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
daughter mother father
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
marriage partnership
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.