ABSTRACT
HERE HOWARD QUOTES FROM THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST MRS Humphry Ward’s Robert Elsemere (though he misspells her name). Mary Augusta Arnold (1851-1920) married Thomas Humphry Ward in 1872 and published her first novel Millie and Olly in 1881. Robert Elsemere, published in 1888, was an instant best-seller and like many of her books was concerned with the need to help the poor and the weak. She was, however, totally opposed to women’s suffrage and in 1908 became first president of the Anti-Suffrage League. By 1914 she was said to be the best-known English woman in America and in 1915 became the first woman journalist to visit the Western Front.
