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red·wing
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n.
1.
a small migratory thrush (Turdus iliacus) that breeds mainly in northern Europe, with red underwings showing in flight.
2.
any of a number of other red-winged birds, esp. the American red-winged blackbird.
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Mrs. Humphry Ward's fictional experiments in the woman question.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Current evaluations of Mrs. Humphry Ward as novelist range from "Victorian anti-feminist...work." ********** Current evaluations of Mrs. Humphry Ward as novelist range from "Victorian anti-feminist...
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Literary Notes: A writer who was too famous too early
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE VERY name of Mrs Humphry Ward suggested to subsequent...it turned out he meant Mrs Ward." He also paints...not a rare gesture in Mrs Ward's novels; heroines marry...indulgent, stupid man. Whilst Mrs Humphry Ward's novels are out...
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Such devoted sisters? The Suffragettes and female solidarity did not always go hand in hand, says Caroline Moore
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...leaves us room, perhaps, to understand a woman like Mrs Humphry Ward, the Victorian novelist who was president of the Anti...simultaneously helps us to understand the resistance of the Mrs Wards of that period, and sheds an amusing sidelight on the...
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Literary Notes: Principle and pathology in the political novel
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...money but to do good. What marks out Mrs Humphry Ward's neglected political novels of...One of the interesting examples of Mrs Ward's analysis of the intermingling...about people. The view that Mrs Humphry Ward takes, unlike Trollope, strikes...
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Letter: Casaubon's original
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/15/1994; ; 378 words
; ...College and friend of the Victorian novelist, Mrs Humphry Ward. In A Writer's Recollections Mrs Ward describes an Oxford "Sunday supper" in...Lewes carried on a lively conversation with Mrs Pattison, a vivacious "blond-cendree...
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/5/1992; 700+ words
; ...by Wells and Stanley Dance ($15.95). li5a Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian , by...writers and of these few can be more interesting than Mrs. Humphry Ward. The granddaughter of Thomas Arnold (headmaster...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Archive.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/5/2007; 417 words
; ...ago Britain's oldest skydiver, Mrs Edith Summers, aged 60, of Tamworth...Post, January 1957 100 years ago Mrs Humphry Ward opened the second day's proceedings...generation to those performed now. Mrs Ward remarked how "tig" which had...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The Descent of Manners.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/21/1993; 700+ words
; ...Browning. The poet's favored revenge, according to Mrs Humphry Ward, was to recite chunks of Moliere in return--on one...or twice threw uneasy glances towards us," conceded Mrs Ward, vaguely. "Browning was, after all, the `lion...
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Nee.(poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 3/22/1996; ; 519 words
; She had strong views on Mrs. Humphry Ward, The Brontes, poor souls, women called George...missed something by happening. We were the children of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Marriage is burial, she used to say. I could...
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/16/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...ease with female friends and was, like the novelist Mrs Humphry Ward, an opponent of the emancipation of women; when asked...of Wharton that, when she arranges to rent Stocks, Mrs Humphry Ward's Essex mansion, it is almost as if some mischievous...
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Mrs. Humphry Ward
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mrs. Humphry Ward 1851-1920, English novelist, whose...there, in 1872, she married Thomas Humphry Ward, an editor of the Oxford Spectator. Her...The Case of Richard Meynell (1911). Mrs. Ward was also a dedicated social worker...
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Ward, Mary Augusta
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Ward, Mary Augusta, better known as Mrs Humphry Ward (1851–1920), was granddaughter of T. Arnold of Rugby. In 1872 she married Thomas Humphry Ward. Her most famous novel, Robert Elsmere (1888...
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Thomas Arnold
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...when he was appointed regius professor of modern history at Oxford. Matthew Arnold was his son and Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry) Ward his granddaughter. Thomas Arnold is portrayed in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a novel about life at Rugby...
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Dime Novels and Historical Romances
Book article from: American Eras
...Backward Hall Caine, The Deemster Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds A. C. Gunter, Mr Barnes of New York Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere 1889 Guy de Maupassant, Stories 1890 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle...
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