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| | Mrs Humphry Ward |
 | | Mrs Ward used her influence to insert a clause in the 1902 Education Bill, obliging Local Education Authorities to fund children's play centres, vocational schools, and other recreational facilities for children, and to add a clause on behalf of physically handicapped children to the Education Act of 1917. |
 | | Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs Humphry Ward) (1851-1920) was an enormously successful novelist in her time, whose work is largely concerned with religious and political issues. |
 | | Mary Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Her father, Thomas Arnold, was the second son of Dr Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School, and the younger brother of Matthew Arnold-Mary's "Uncle Matt"-the poet and cultural critic. |
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