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Robert Elsmere
Robert Elsmere
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Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Arnold, won worldwide recognition with the publication of Robert Elsmere (1888), which dramatized for countless readers the loss of faith in orthodox Christianity that resulted from the development of evolutionary science
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Her most famous novel, Robert Elsmere, 1888, telling of an Anglican clergyman's conversion to something like Unitarian belief, sparked much religious debate and was the best selling book of its decade. "It was, as reflected in contemporary conversation," wrote her friend Henry James, "a momentous public event."
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Her most famous novel, Robert Elsmere, 1888, telling of an Anglican clergyman's conversion to something like Unitarian belief, sparked much religious debate and was the best selling book of its decade. "It was, as reflected in contemporary conversation," wrote her friend Henry James, "a momentous public event."
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