Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward

by Judith Wilt

From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern England and see again the high melodrama of science's challenge to Christianity, of political socialism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923670
• ISBN13: 9780813923673
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher