British Novelist Mary Augusta Ward
1899–1917. Collection of five (5) items, consisting of two vintage silver gelatin photographs in postcard format, two letters (one hand-written and one typed), and an inscribed slip with attached process screen image, all signed or autographed by Ward, some with dates, sizes range from 4.8 x 10.2cm to 13.8 x 19.4cm. Silvering, slight creases and slight soiling to photographs, old folds or stains to letters. The hand-written letter dated “Dec 7th, ‘99”, addressed to a Miss Schwann, appears to be in a secretarial hand, but signed by Ward. The letter is a reply to Miss Schwann’s correspondence about the “Cripples’ Workshop” in London, and the [Passmore Edwards] Settlement School in Bloomsbury, inviting the addressee to come and visit the latter for comparison and to give her advice. The typed letter, dated “August 14th, 1917”, is a reply to someone who had offered her services as a secretary to Mrs Ward. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920) is “best known for her influential loss-of-faith novel Robert Elsmere. She was among the more prolific and popular novelists of the later Victorian and Edwardian periods. Her 50-year career spanned an era of enormous transformation. During it she produced 25 novels, an autobiography, journalism (including reviews and literary criticism), a children's book, a translation, and several works of war propaganda…Her work insistently takes up what she sees as the pressing social issues of her day…It displays an abiding interest in the social, intellectual, and sexual relations between men and women. The education and occupations of women are recurrent themes…Although Ward’s nationalism, imperialism, and anti-suffrage stance cast her as conservative to recent readers, she was a reformer, in her earlier years a democrat, and an acute analyst of gender who believed strongly in the currents of progress and the transformative power of texts.” Ref: Cambridge University; University College, London.
Item #CL206-20
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