Ebook {Epub PDF} Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Under pressure from his young parish priest, Robert Elsmere, the squire sacks his lazy, corrupt steward and brings about rebuilding of the derelict cottages on his estate and gives Robert the free run of his /5(18). www.doorway.rusgreaterthanfather'swanderings;greaterthan the conditions of unrest ofthetime,and greater thanthe Oxford life which sheled so long, was the influenceupon Mrs. Ward ofher.  · Ward, Humphry, Mrs., Title: Robert Elsmere Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Religious fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. Author: Ward, Humphry, Mrs.,

I am particularly interested in a couple of novels that sold very well at the time, but that now seem to be largely off the radar of Victorianists: John Inglesant (), by J. H. Shorthouse, and Robert Elsmere (), by Mary Ward, who published under the name Mrs. Humphry Ward. The project is, at the moment, rather nebulously conceptualized. Mrs. Humphrey Ward ( - ), born Mary Augusta Arnold, was a British novelist and anti-suffragist. She was born in Tasmania to a prominent family poets and professors. One of her nephews was Aldous Huxley. She believed that society as a whole and women in particular were better off if issues of international relations, finance, law, and. Mrs Humphry Ward's reputation was established with the appearance in of her third book-and first full-length novel-Robert Elsmere. Her first published piece of long fiction had been a children's story, Milly and Oily, in , which received a few favourable reviews but sold slowly-about 2, copies in its first seven years.

English. Publisher. Smith, Elder. Publication date. Pages. Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward published in It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James. [The following passage comes from Ryals's introduction to Robert Elsemere (see bibliography) — George P. Landow [Ward's] ideas on religion might never have led to the writing of Robert Elsmere if, in March of , she had not attended the first of the Bampton Lectures, which were given that year by the Reverend John Wordsworth, a fellow tutor of her husband's at Brasenose, whom Mrs. Ward. Robert Elsmere. by. Mrs. Humphry Ward. www.doorway.ru homepage. Index of Robert Elsmere. Previous part (9) Next part (11) only have been interpreted in one way. So he stayed, and perforce listened, but in complete silence.