I intended my next book to be Maurice Baring's 'Cat's Cradle', but soon discovered that I'd read it already! So I switched to 'Marcella' by Mrs Humphry Ward, aka Mary Augusta Ward. This is her. Previously I'd read only her 'Robert Elsmere', which I very much enjoyed. 'Marcella' was written six years later, in 1894. … Continue reading Marcella – Mrs Humphrey Ward →