MRS HUMPHRY WARD: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian.
Pp. [x]+432, 16 plates, notes, full page family tree, chronology, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, short closed tear at head of front flap fold, backstrip slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves slightly foxed, green ink mark across bottom edges; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. First edition. *Born in Tasmania, Mary Ward (1851-1920) was a bestselling novelist. 'She helped found Somerville College, Oxford, the University's first institution for the higher education of women, inaugurated a number of play centres for the children of London's working women, and founded a settlement which in many ways fore-shadowed the British welfare state. More controversially, she militated against the vote for women, and as the first woman reporter to visit the Allied trenches in 1916 was instrumental in bringing American into the war' [wrapper blurb]. Item #174647
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