WARD, Mary Augusta Amold, English novelist: b. Hobart, Tasmania, 11 June 1851; d. London, 24 March 1920. She was a daughter of Thomas Arnold (q.v.), son of Arnold of Rugby, and in 1872 was married to Thomas Humphry Ward. Her father, having become a Roman Catholic, gave up his educational post in Tasmania and returned to England in 1856 and there his daughter was educated. The father held appointments at Dublin and Bir mingham, and after 1885 resided at Oxford, where she also lived with her husband until they removed to London in 1880. Her long. residence in Oxford and consequent familiarity with the intellectual atmosphere of the university no doubt gave her that inclination toward ethical discussion which so markedly influenced the character of her writing. In 1890 she was one of the principal founders of University Hall, a settlement among the poor in the Saint Pancras district of London, and since 1897 oc cupying a spacious building near Tavistock square, erected for that purpose by Passmore Edwards: In the work of this settlement Mrs. Ward put a vast amount of personal en deavor and thought, and its influence has been comrnensurate with the pains that have been taken in its behalf. Mrs. Ward's first impor tant literary work vras a translation of (Amiel's Journal' (1885), but prior to this she had pub lished (Milly and Oily,' a child's story. These
were followed by (Miss Bretherton,' a story (1886), and (Robert Elsmere (1888), which brought her almost inunediately a world-wide fame, being translated into several languages, and having an immense sale. Later works of hers are 'The History of David Grieve' (1892); (Marcella' (1894) ; (Sir George Tressaday' (1896) ; (Helbeck of Bannisdale) (1898) ; 'Eleanor> 0900) ; (Lady Rose's Daughter' (1902); (The Marriage of William Ashe' (1905); (Fenwick's Career> (1906); (Unitari anism and the Future' (1894). All of Mrs. Ward's novels display much intellectual power and intensity of moral purpose, and her in fluence upon, the social and ethical thought of England and the United States has not been inconsiderable. Her novels are of varying de grees of excellence, (Helbeck of Bannisdale) being perhaps the most powerfully conceived since (Robert Elsmere.) She was a founder of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League in 1908, and took the platform in defense of their views on several occasions.