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 âRobert Elsmereâ, 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 worldâs 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 Wardâs complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wardâs 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
* Wardâs non-fiction, including rare essays â available in no other collection
* Wardâs autobiography
* Features a bonus biography â discover Wardâs literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
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CONTENTS:
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 Roseâs Daughter (1903)
The Marriage of William Ashe (1905)
Fenwickâs 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
Amielâs Journal (1885)
The Brontë Prefaces (1899)
Anti-Suffrage Essays (1908)
John Lyly (1911)
Englandâs Effort: Six Letters to an American Friend (1916)
Wordsworthâs Valley in War-Time (1916)
Towards the Goal (1917)
Fields of Victory (1919)
The Autobiography
A Writerâs Recollections (1918)
The Biography
The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward by Janet Penrose Trevelyan
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