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Person’s Profile

Mary Augusta (Arnold) Ward (1851-1920)

Description

member of the Gosling Society, novelist as ‘Mrs Humphry Ward

Biography

Daughter of Thomas Arnold (1823-1900) school inspector and teacher, she was the granddaughter of Dr. Arnold of Rugby; she married (1872) Thomas Humphry Ward.  She became a Gosling as ‘Windermere’ in 1869; she was evidently a friend of Theodora Clarke.