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Born Mary Augusta Arnold in Hobart, Tasmania, she grew up in a literary environment with a father who was a professor of literature and as a young lady married Thomas Ward, a writer/editor.
Mary Augusta Ward began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 under the title Milly and Olly . Her novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian values she herself practised. Mrs. Ward helped establish an organization for working and teaching among the poor and was one of the founders of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League in 1908. In this latter vein, some of her writings were under the name "Mrs. Humphry Ward."
In the summer of 1908 she was asked by Lord Curzon and William Cremer to become the first president of Britain’s Anti-Suffrage League . Ward agreed and took on the job creating editing the Anti-Suffrage Review. Using her writing skills she published a large number of articles on the subject and two of her novels, The Testing of Diana Mallory and a Delia Blanchflower, were used as platform's to criticize the suffragettes. In a 1909 article in The London Times, Ward wrote that constitutional, legal, financial, military, and international problems were problems only men could solve. However, she came to promote the idea of women having a voice in local government and other rights that the men's anti-suffrage movement would not tolerate.
During World War I, she was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to write a series of articles to explain to Americans what was happening in Britain during the war.
Mary Augusta Ward died in London, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England, and was interred at AldburyAldbury is a village in Hertfordshire in England, near the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The nearest town and railway station is Tring. Uphill from the village are the Bridgewater monument and the Ashridge estate. Its centre has an old chur in HertfordshireHertfordshire (pronounced 'Hartfordshire' and abbreviated as 'Herts') is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is one of the Home Counties. Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the c.
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