Lady Rose's Daughter

Romance

Ward, Mary Augusta

Historical

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"Lady Connie", by Mary Augusta Ward. Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward (1851-1920).

Lady Connie

Literature & Fiction

Classics

The History of David Grieve

Marcella, young and with a new-womanly independence, has a yearning to help the poor. When a gamekeeper is murdered near where she lives, Marcella finds herself at odds with her wealthy fiancé over beliefs about property and justice. The discovery leads Marcella to pursue―among other things―a career in nursing. In settings ranging from village cottages, London slums and hospital wards to fashionable drawing rooms and the Ladies’ Gallery of the Houses of Parliament, the book combines a gripping story with serious issues―socialism, rural and urban poverty, poaching laws, journalistic ethics, the Woman Question―inspiring critics to liken Marcella to George Eliot’s novels. The Broadview Literary Texts edition records the substantive differences between the two major editions published during Ward’s lifetime, and included among the many appendices are news accounts of the murder trial and executions that inspired the novel, and previously unpublished letters by Ward. NB: Mary Augusta Ward has traditionally been known as Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Marcella (Broadview Literary Texts)

Literary

Broadview Press

Helbeck of Bannisdale

Victorian Secrets

First published in 1888, Robert Elsmere was probably the biggest-selling novel of the nineteenth century. Inspired by the religious crises of her father, Mary Augusta Ward tells the story of an Oxford clergyman who begins to doubt the doctrines of the Anglican church after he encounters the work of German rationalists. Rather than becoming an atheist, Elsmere pursues the idea of “constructive liberalism,” stressing the importance of social work among the poor and uneducated. The Times called it “a clever attack upon revealed religion”, while William Gladstone’s copy was annotated with objections to Ward’s heterodoxy.In the Victorian age, nothing was more likely to generate publicity than religious controversy, and Robert Elsmere became a runaway success. More than one million copies were sold, generating around £4,000 in royalties, which would today put Ward in the millionaire author bracket. Her earnings would have been higher if it weren’t for the absence of international copyright laws when Robert Elsmere was first published. Many cheap US editions were hurriedly produced to cash in on its success. Some were sold as loss leaders for just 4 cents, and other copies were given away free with every cake of Maine’s Balsam Fir Soap, conveying the idea that cleanliness was next to godliness.Out of print for twenty-five years, this new edition brings Ward’s publishing phenomenon to a new audience. The text is completely reset, and the edition includes:critical introduction by Miriam Elizabeth Bursteinexplanatory notesextracts from the preface to the Westmoreland edition of Robert Elsmereexcerpts from Gladstone’s famous review of Robert Elsmereextracts from Ward’s The History of David Grieveextract from Ward’s The Case of Richard Meynell

Robert Elsmere

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