Mary Augusta Ward
Ward's engagement with social welfare, religious doubt, and the position of educated women makes her fiction important beyond its enormous contemporary popularity. The Mating of Lydia and Lady Connie are among her later, less celebrated works.
Works
- Lady ConnieNovel of a young woman navigating social expectations and romantic choices
- The Mating of Lydia
- Robert ElsmereNovel exploring faith, doubt, and religious reform in Victorian England
- The Case of Richard Meynell
- Helbeck of BannisdaleNovel examining religious conflict and personal devotion in the Lake District