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Mary Ward: Socialism and State Intervention

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Mary Ward’s three-volume novel , Marcella , was first published in 1894, and became one of the most successful of her social reform novels but it was not well-received by everyone. Undeterred by the criticism it received, Mary wrote a sequel, Sir George Tressady , which was serialised in Century Magazine before publication as a novel in 1896.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In the Autograph Collection of Mary’s work consulted in this book, Marcella is published as 2 volumes. Mrs Humphry Ward, ed. The Writings of Mrs. Humphry Ward: Autograph Edition, XVI vols. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1910).

  2. 2.

    See Appendix 3 for a thematic summary of Mary’s novels.

  3. 3.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, Introduction, p. xix.

  4. 4.

    Colby, The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century, p. 1.

  5. 5.

    Green, “Review of E. Caird, ‘Philosophy of Kant’,” p. 133.

  6. 6.

    Wempe, T.H. Green’s Theory of Positive Freedom: From Metaphysics to Political Theory, p. 14.

  7. 7.

    Colin Tyler, Common Good Politics: British Idealism and Social Justice in the Contemporary World (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 61.

  8. 8.

    Beth Sutton-Ramspeck and Nicole B. Mellor, eds., Marcella, Broadview Literary Texts (Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2002), pp. 21–22.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., pp. 22–23.

  10. 10.

    Gwynn, Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 42.

  11. 11.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, Introduction. Aldbury village is located near St. Albans in Hertfordshire.

  12. 12.

    For a collection of primary sources published on this during the 1880s, see Mark Freeman, The English Rural Poor, 1850–1914, 5 vols., vol. 4 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005).

  13. 13.

    Sutton-Ramspeck and Mellor, Marcella, Introduction, pp. 17–19.

  14. 14.

    For a detailed review of attitudes to poaching and further references, see Winstanley and Osborne, “Rural and Urban Poaching in Victorian England.”

  15. 15.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, Introduction.

  16. 16.

    “The Murder of Gamekeeper,” Birmingham Daily Post 1892. In addition to this report, other responses are published as an appendix in Sutton-Ramspeck and Mellor, Marcella.

  17. 17.

    Marcella’s unhappy early life and schooling were drawn from Mary’s experiences, while the older Marcella was based on her aunt, Jane Forster . Peterson, Victorian Heretic: Mrs Humphry Ward’s Robert Elsmere, pp. 18, 30.

  18. 18.

    Mary’s association with the Fabian Society was through Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Wallas. Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., p. 121.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., p. 122.

  21. 21.

    Gwynn, Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 46.

  22. 22.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, p. 256.

  23. 23.

    Harry Wharton is consistently referred to as Wharton in Marcella, while Aldous Raeburn is either Aldous and later, Lord Maxwell, in Sir George Tressady.

  24. 24.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, p. 479.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., p. 434.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., p. 453.

  27. 27.

    Yeo, “Some Contradictions of Social Motherhood,” p. 131.

  28. 28.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, p. 331.

  29. 29.

    Marcella: Volume II, vol. VI, Autograph Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), p. 192.

  30. 30.

    Thesing and Pulsford note the increasing use of violence in relation to the female characters within Mary’s novels. Thesing and Pulsford, Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 10.

  31. 31.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume II, VI, p. 189.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., p. 192.

  33. 33.

    Green, “Speech to Oxford Auxiliary of the United Kingdom Alliance (1875),” p. 255.

  34. 34.

    Ward, Marcella: Volume I, V, Introduction, p. xix.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    The term ‘reforming heroine’ is used in Wilt, Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward, p. 87.

  37. 37.

    Mrs Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady: Volume I, vol. VII, Autograph Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910).

  38. 38.

    Mrs Sidney Webb, ed. The Case for the Factory Acts (London: Grant Richards, 1901).

  39. 39.

    These are detailed as tailoring, boot-finishing and shirt-making in men or women’s homes. Ward, Sir George Tressady: Volume I, VII, p. 323.

  40. 40.

    Ibid., p. 325.

  41. 41.

    Ibid., p. 54.

  42. 42.

    Sir George Tressady: Volume II, vol. VIII, Autograph Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), p. 158.

  43. 43.

    Sir George Tressady: Volume I, VII, p. 40.

  44. 44.

    Ibid., p. 79.

  45. 45.

    Ibid., p. 411.

  46. 46.

    Ibid., Chapter XIV.

  47. 47.

    Ibid., p. 337.

  48. 48.

    Sir George Tressady: Volume II, VIII, p. 146.

  49. 49.

    Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 115.

  50. 50.

    Webb, The Case for the Factory Acts.

  51. 51.

    Mrs Humphry Ward, “Preface,” in The Case for the Factory Acts, ed. Mrs Sidney Webb (London: Grant Richards, 1901), p. xvi.

  52. 52.

    Ibid., p. xv.

  53. 53.

    Green, “Lecture on ‘Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract’,” pp. 370–371.

  54. 54.

    Ward, “Preface,” p. xvi.

  55. 55.

    Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 245.

  56. 56.

    Ibid., p. 229.

  57. 57.

    Gwynn, Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 52.

  58. 58.

    Green was elected a Liberal councillor for Oxford in 1876 and again in 1879 and was in conflict with the election campaigns on three occasions. Nicholson, Collected Works of T. H. Green: Additional Writings, Introduction, pp. xxiii–xxv.

  59. 59.

    In addition to the speeches already noted, see Green’s letters and speeches in Nicholson’s additional writings; for example Green, “Letter to the Editor, Oxford Chronicle, 4th January (1873).”

  60. 60.

    Gwynn, Mrs Humphry Ward, p. 51.

  61. 61.

    Simhony, “Rights That Bind: T. H. Green on Rights and Community,” p. 258.

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Loader, H. (2019). Mary Ward: Socialism and State Intervention. In: Mrs Humphry Ward and Greenian Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14109-7_12

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