Harvest - Ward, Humphry
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Mary Augusta Ward (1851 -1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name Mrs. Humphry Ward. She read French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Mary Augusta Ward began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 titled Milly and Olly. Her novels expressed strong religious values and Victorian morals. In 1908 she helped found the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Harvest is a story set during the last summer of the war.

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Mary Augusta Ward (1851 -1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name Mrs. Humphry Ward. She read French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Mary Augusta Ward began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 titled Milly and Olly. Her novels expressed strong religious values and Victorian morals. In 1908 she helped found the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Harvest is a story set during the last summer of the war.
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Mary Augusta Ward CBE was a British author who lived from June 11, 1851, to March 24, 1920. She wrote under her married name, Mrs. Humphry Ward. Setting up a Settlement in London to help poor people get better schooling was one way she did this. In 1908, she became the first President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She came from a well-known family of writers and educators. Mary was the daughter of Julia Sorell and Tom Arnold, who taught literature. William Thomas Arnold was a writer and journalist, Ethel Arnold worked for women's right to vote, and Julia Huxley started Prior's Field School for Girls in 1902 and married Leonard Huxley. Their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley. It was important for British intellectual life to have people like the Arnolds and the Huxleys. Author Matthew Arnold was her uncle, and Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School, was her grandpa. Tom Arnold, Mary's father, was made head of schools in Van Diemen's Land, which is now Tasmania. He started his job on January 15, 1850.