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Mrs. Wilfrid Ward
1864–1932
A British novelist and nonfiction writer, she brought Roman Catholic life and conscience into fiction with wit, sympathy, and a sharp eye for social detail. Her books include One Poor Scruple, Out of Due Time, and Tudor Sunset.
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Great Possessions
by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward
About the author
Born Josephine Mary Hope-Scott in 1864, she published mainly under the name Mrs. Wilfrid Ward. She was a British writer whose fiction and nonfiction were closely shaped by her Roman Catholic background, and her work often explored family life, moral conflict, and the customs of English Catholic society.
She wrote ten novels and a novella, with well-known titles including One Poor Scruple (1899), Out of Due Time (1906), The Job Secretary (1911), and Tudor Sunset (1932). She was married to Wilfrid Ward, and her literary career ran alongside a deeply engaged Catholic intellectual and family life.
Though less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her novels were valued for their quiet irony, psychological insight, and insider view of a distinctive social world. She died in 1932.