Book-Length Critical Studies Of Mary Ward

• Bindslev, Anne M. Mrs. Humphry Ward: A Study in Late-Victorian Feminine Consciousness and Creative Expression. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1985.



• Peterson, William S. Victorian Heretic: Mrs. Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere. Leicester, England: Leicester UP, 1976.



• Smith, Esther Marian Greenwell. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

Other Literary Criticism

For an excellent bibliography of contemporary reviews and recent criticism, consult Michaelyn Burnette's excellent web page, "Mary Arnold Ward: A Bibliography of Criticism 1881-1990":
     http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/English/ward3.html

For more recent material, consult the MLA bibliography.