Mrs. Humphry Ward

Life
1851-1920; Author of Waves on the Ocean of Life, A Dalriadian Tale (London: Simpkin 1869), featuring religious and political strife in 18th-century Ulster; set at Lough Erne and Antrim, Dunluce and the Causeway; deemed truthfully in domestic contexts, sympathetic to the people and not disparaging of ’98 insurgents.

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Works
Marcella, 2 vols. (1894); The Story of Bessie Costrell (1895); Daphne, or Marriage à la Mode (NY: Cassell 1909), ill. Fred. Pegram, 315pp.; England's Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend, preface by Lord Rosebery (London: Smith, Elder 1916), 192pp.

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Notes
Digital sources: Celebration of Women at Pennsylvania Univ. [link] and Victorian Women Writers Project at Univ. of Indiana [link] share digital copies of texts listed in Works and Quotations, supra.

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)