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<p>Mrs. Humphry Ward tells the story of a pretty clinging Englishwoman who learns through the war's hard lesson the essential dishonesty of clinging.</p><p> </p><p>Work brings her spiritual freedom as it has brought spiritual freedom to hundreds of women since the beginning of the war.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Mary Augusta Ward n��e Arnold (1851-1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward. She began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 under the title Milly and Olly.</p><p> </p><p>Her novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian values she herself practised. Her popularity spread beyond Great Britain to the United States.</p><p> </p><p>According to the New York Times her book Lady Rose's Daughter was the bestselling novel in the United States in 1903 as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905.</p><p> </p><p>Her most popular novel by far was the religious novel with a purpose Robert Elsmere which portrayed the religious crisis of a young pastor and his family.</p>