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Mrs Humphry Ward
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Mrs Humphry Ward : The History of David Grieve
' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
Mrs Humphry Ward :
' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- she is as great a menace to health of mind as influenza to the body".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Mrs Humphry Ward : Miss Bretherton
Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward : Robert Elsmere
'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buchan Print: Book
Mrs Humphry Ward : A Writer's Recollections
Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- full of old ghosts; books half way to decomposition [...] I could not resist Mrs Ward, & I stand in her unconscionably long hours, as if she were a bath of tepid water that one lacks the courage to leave [goes on to comment further on Ward's autobiography].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Mrs Humphry Ward : A Writer's Recollections
'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read it then'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Mrs Humphry Ward : The Coryston Family
'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.'
