Lives Of The Novelists: A History Of Fiction In 294 Lives - Plot & Excerpts
Mrs Humphry Ward 1851–1920 If only there were more respectable geniuses. Mrs Ward complaining about ubiquitous literary immorality to her son, Arnold A quiz: 1. Which novelist stopped British women getting the vote for ten years? 2. Which British novelist pioneered the children’s play centre system in Britain? 3. Which British novelist was instrumental in inducing America to enter the war against Germany in 1917? 4. Which novelist was instrumental in bringing down the hegemony of the circulating libraries in 1894? 5. Which woman was the most richly remunerated ‘serious’ novelist of the nineteenth century? The answer to all of the above is ‘Mrs Humphry Ward’ – a ‘chattel’ name she was proud to bear but which has always made later admirers (alas, few of them) as uneasy as would, for example, ‘Mrs Leonard Woolf’. Mary Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her father, Thomas Arnold, was an inspector of schools who had emigrated in the 1840s out of missionary idealism; and her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold.
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