Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (Arnold)

Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (Arnold)
(b. 1851)
   Novelist. Milly and Olly (1881), Miss Bretherton (1886), Robert Elsmere (1888), The History of David Grieve (1892), Marcella (1894), Sir George Tressady (1896), Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898), Lady Rose's Daughter (1903), The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) Fenwick's Career (1906); plays, Eleanor (1902), Agatha (1905), etc.

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