THE LIFE OF
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

MARY WARD AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE
FROM A WATER-COLOUR PAINTING BY MRS A. H. JOHNSON

THE LIFE OF
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

BY HER DAUGHTER
JANET   PENROSE   TREVELYAN
Author of
“A Short History of the Italian People”




NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1923

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London

TO
DOROTHY   MARY   WARD

AUTHOR’S NOTE

MY warmest thanks are due to the many friends who have helped me,directly or indirectly, in the writing of this book, but especially toall those who have sent me the letters they possessed from Mrs. Ward, orwho have given me leave to publish their own. Mr. Henry Gladstone kindlylooked out for me the letters written by Mrs. Ward to Mr. Gladstoneduring the Robert Elsmere period; Mrs. Creighton did the same for thelong period covered by Mrs. Ward’s correspondence with the Bishop andwith herself; Miss Arnold of Fox How sent me many valuable lettersbelonging to the later years. So with Mrs. A. H. Johnson, Mrs.Conybeare, Mrs. R. Vere O’Brien, Sir Robert Blair, Mr. Leonard Huxley,Mrs. Reginald Smith, Lord Buxton, M. Chevrillon, Miss McKee, Mrs.Turner, Miss Gertrude Wood, and many others, and although the lettersmay not in all cases have been suitable for publication, they have givenme many valuable side-lights on Mrs. Ward’s life and work.

To Mrs. A. H. Johnson my special thanks are due for permission toreproduce her water-colour portrait of Mrs. Ward, and to Mrs. T. H.Green for much help in connexion with the Oxford portion of the book.

No book at all, however, could have been produced, even from thematerial so generously placed at my disposal, had it not been for theconstant collaboration of my father and sister, whose help in siftinggreat masses of papers and in advising me in all difficulties has beenmy greatest support throughout this task.

J. P. T.

BERKHAMSTEAD,
July, 1923.

CONTENTS