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review, hails the novel a "masterpiece of fiction" that "handles a difficult subject with rare tact and courtesy", despite being "a bit too heavily freighted with its theology". Erb, writing in 1999, sees autobiographical elements in the heroine.
279:, and was seen by some contemporary reviewers as a rebuttal of the earlier work. Ward herself tried to refute this notion, stating in the novel's introduction that parts had been in progress for more than seven years. The literary scholar
68:(1932). Her novels were generally well received during her lifetime, but fell into obscurity after her death. Some of her fiction has been reprinted in the 21st century. She also wrote articles and religious tracts, and edited her husband
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443:, as well as religious tracts for the Catholic Truth Society, including one on Catholic marriage. She edited Wilfrid Ward's lectures for publication after his death, and compiled a biographical introduction.
377:(1921) is set just before the war; the "beautifully realized" protagonist finds out cruelly that his deceased father was German. Ward published two novels set after the war, addressing morale problems.
263:, published in 1899, was a rapid success. It is a romance that focuses on the issue of marriage to someone who has been divorced, which was not permitted by the Catholic Church. Her obituarist for
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Herbert Gorman (16 October 1932). "Good Queen Bess" as a Roman
Catholic Sees Her: Mrs. Wilfrid Ward's Historical Novel Paints a Vivid Picture of the Late Afternoon of the Tudor Dynasty.
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notes her "imagination, wit, taste, style, and the power of drawing character". The academic Peter C. Erb, writing in 1999, describes her a "realist" with a "sense of humour".
342:(1909) draws sympathetic portraits of Church of England clergymen; Erb describes it as expressing the author's "delight in ambiguity". The partly "surrealistic"
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it adheres to or thwarts the Divine purpose". Maisie Ward describes her mother's characters as "frank" depictions of "very faulty humans". Her obituarist for
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praises the novel's "original" plot and lively, realistic characterisations; it describes the author as showing "a breadth, a tolerance, a heartfelt piety".
133:(1889–1975); their other daughter was also a writer; and Leo Ward (1894–1942), one of their three sons, was a missionary priest. The family lived at
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Perry Worden (26 May 1906). A Catholic Novel: Mrs. Wilfrid Ward's "Out of Due Time" Is a Story with a Well-Defined
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Peter C. Erb (1999). Some
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