Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) NPG x136532

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Ogden's

The daughter of Thomas Arnold, Ward took an active interest in social work for London's poor and in women's education. She embodied her views in her novel Robert Elsmere (1888), the sales of which enabled her to establish a charitable 'settlement' for the working classes in London, which pioneered childcare for working women. She married Thomas Humphry Ward of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1872. She founded the Lectures for Women committee in 1879 and helped establish Somerville College, Oxford, but was opposed to women's suffrage.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.