Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920) Also known as: Ward, Mrs. Humphry

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Birth Date

1851-06-11

Death Date

1920-03-24

Birthplace

Hobart, Australia

Biographical Text

Mary Augusta Ward was an accomplished British novelist who wrote religiously themed stories under her married name, Mrs. Humphry Ward. She was against women's suffrage and wrote pamphlets and novels campaigning against it. She instead advocated for women to only be involved in local government, claiming that only men could solve anything bigger and outside the local scope. Ward, however, did believe in education for women and emphasized it by working as an educator in the residential settlements she founded. During World War I, President Theodore Roosevelt asked her to write a series of articles explaining to the American public what was happening in Britain. This resulted in three books based on her visits to the trenches on the western front. Ward died in 1920.

Ward married Humphry Ward in 1872.

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Social worker

Women's rights activist

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

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Public domain

Gender

Female

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1901

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“Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 5, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1295.

Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920) Also known as: Ward, Mrs. Humphry

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Lecture on the University Social Settlement, October 29, 1901

Arthur Gleason to Leila Seward Gleason, May 4, 1906

Interpretation of the Chicago Industrial Exhibit, March 1907

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, March 26, 1908

Address to the Playground Association, March 31, 1908

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, May 7, 1908

John Sanborn Phillips to Ida Minerva Tarbell, May 7, 1908 (fragment)

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 23, 1909

Waldo Ralph Browne to Mary Rozet Smith, August 10, 1910

Waldo Ralph Browne to Jane Addams, August 10, 1910

Waldo Ralph Browne to Louise de Koven Bowen, August 10, 1910

Woman and the State, February 2-14, 1911

Why Women Should Vote, March 27, 1911

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