The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward

by Janet Penrose Trevelyan

December 21, 1895.

[2] “School-days with Miss Clough.” By T. C. Down. Cornhill, June, 1920.

[3] According to the universal understanding of those days, in the case of a mixed marriage the boys followed the father’s faith and the girls the mother’s. Tom Arnold’s boys were, therefore, brought up as Catholics until their father’s reversion to Anglicanism in 1864.

[4] Passages in a Wandering Life (T. Arnold), p. 185.

[5] Jowett to Lewis Campbell, June, 1871.

[6] Privately printed.

[7] Life and Letters of H. Taine. Trans. by E. Sparrel-Bayly, Vol. III, p. 58.

[8] He called her “the greatest and best person I have ever met, or shall ever meet, in this world.”—Letters of J. R. Green. Ed. Leslie Stephen, p. 284.

[9] After the foundation of Somerville Hall Mrs. Ward was succeeded in the Secretaryship by Mrs. T. H. Green and Mr. Henry Butcher.

[10] Now Mrs. Arthur Strong, Assistant Director of the British School at Rome.