Delphi Complete Works of Mrs. Humphry Ward

by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Delphi Classics (Editor)

The late Victorian novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward) embraced the novel as her medium for exploring the serious dilemmas of the age. Her 1888 masterpiece ‘Robert Elsmere’, a novel on the theme of religious faith and doubt, enjoyed phenomenal sales on both sides of the Atlantic. Altogether Ward published 26 novels and was the world’s best-selling novelist at the turn of the century, earning royalties unprecedented at the time. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Ward’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ward’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 26 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare books appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Ward’s non-fiction, including rare essays – available in no other collection
* Ward’s autobiography
* Features a bonus biography – discover Ward’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Novels
Milly and Olly (1881)
Miss Bretherton (1884)
Robert Elsmere (1888)
The History of David Grieve (1892)
Marcella (1894)
The Story of Bessie Costrell (1895)
Sir George Tressady (1896)
Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898)
Eleanor (1900)
Lady Rose’s Daughter (1903)
The Marriage of William Ashe (1905)
Fenwick’s Career (1906)
Diana Mallory (1908)
Daphne (1909)
Canadian Born (1910)
The Case of Richard Meynell (1911)
The Mating of Lydia (1913)
The Coryston Family (1913)
Delia Blanchflower (1914)
Eltham House (1915)
A Great Success (1915)
Lady Connie (1916)
Missing (1917)
The War and Elizabeth (1918)
Cousin Philip (1919)
Harvest (1920)

The Non-Fiction
Amiel’s Journal (1885)
The Brontë Prefaces (1899)
Anti-Suffrage Essays (1908)
John Lyly (1911)
England’s Six Letters to an American Friend (1916)
Wordsworth’s Valley in War-Time (1916)
Towards the Goal (1917)
Fields of Victory (1919)

The Autobiography
A Writer’s Recollections (1918)

The Biography
The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward by Janet Penrose Trevelyan

12098 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2022

About the author

Mary Augusta Ward CBE (nee Arnold) was an English novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists. Mary was the daughter of Tom Arnold, a professor of literature, and Julia Sorrell. Her uncle was the poet Matthew Arnold and her grandfather Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. Her sister Julia married Leonard Huxley, the son of Thomas Huxley, and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley. The Arnolds and the Huxleys were an important influence on British intellectual life.Mary's father Tom Arnold was appointed inspector of schools in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and commenced his role on 15 January 1850. Tom Arnold was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 12 January 1856, which made him so unpopular in his job (and with his wife) that he resigned and left for England with his family in July 1856. Mary Arnold had her fifth birthday the month before they left, and had no further connection with Tasmania. Tom Arnold was ratified as chair of English literature at the contemplated Catholic university, Dublin, after some delay. Mary Augusta Ward died in London, England, and was interred at Aldbury in Hertfordshire, near her beloved country home Stocks.