Mrs Humphry Ward

My Month in Books: 2021

I’ve picked out two of the books I read this month which look, in their different ways, at issues around women’s agency in a patriarchal society. First is The Invader, …

No Votes for Women 100 – Mrs Mary Humphry Ward

In all the commemorations around the one hundredth anniversary of votes for (some) women, it’s easy to forget that there were many women who didn’t want the vote. In 1908 …

Spotlight on…Mrs Humphry Ward (1851 – 1920)

In 1915 the best-selling novelist Mrs Mary Humphrey Ward published Delia Blanchflower. In many ways it’s typical romantic fare: a stern guardian to a wilful young heiress must save her …