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Over time the activities at the Settlement expanded to include fully equipped classrooms for children with disabilities, one of the first in England, pioneering the importance of play within children's education, the equivalent of an after school club, a youth club for teenagers and a centre for pre-
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and Mrs Humphry Ward in February 1909, when the host was decisively defeated. In 1920 Mary Ward died and the following year the Settlement was renamed as the Mary Ward Settlement in memory of her work. In addition to the educational centre, the organisation includes the Mary Ward Legal Centre.
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In a speech to mark the opening of the Settlement in 1898 Mary Ward stated its mission as: "education, social intercourse, and debate of the wider sort, music, books, pictures, travel". She added: "It is these that make life rich and animated, that ease the burden of it, that stand perpetually
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In late 2018, The Mary Ward Adult Education Centre announced in a letter to students its plans to move to new premises in
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Since September 2023 the Mary Ward Adult Education Centre has been based on Stratford High Street in East London.
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The settlement was renamed the Mary Ward Centre in the 1970s. In 1982 it relocated to the Grade II listed 42–43
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and ante-natal advice, among many others. It was the site of the historic debate on women's suffrage between
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The centre's home from 1982 to 2023 in converted 18th-century houses at 42 Queen Square
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between a man and a woman and the darker, coarser temptations of our human road".
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Mary Ward (Adult Education) Centre website – current activities of the Centre
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Mary Ward Settlement – part of the London Metropolitan Archives Collection
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Bluffton University page on the Mary Ward Settlement and its architects
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The Mary Ward Centre houses a portrait of John Passmore Edwards by
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at Grade I. It is considered to be a masterpiece of late
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Passmore Edwards Settlement

Stratford, London
Mary Augusta Ward
Victorian novelist
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League
settlement movement
John Passmore Edwards
Gordon Square
Mary Ward House
Tavistock Square
Arnold Dunbar Smith
listed
Victorian architecture
Arts and Crafts
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Queen Square
Stanhope Institute
Stratford
East London
Mary Ward House, the organisation's home from 1898
The centre's home from 1982 to 2023 in converted 18th-century houses at 42 Queen Square
Great Turnstile
Holborn
Felix Moscheles
Albert Sterner
Guild of Play


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