Mary Ward

Mary Ward may refer to:

  • Mary Ward (nun) (1585–1645), English Catholic nun who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, a Roman Catholic secondary school named for her
  • Mary Ward (scientist) (1827–1869), Anglo Irish amateur scientist killed under the wheels of an experimental steam car
  • Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920), British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward
    • Mary Ward Centre, an adult education college located in London named for her
  • Mary Ward (nurse) (1885–1972), English nurse to the boat people on the waterways
  • Mary Ward (actress), Australian stage and television actress
  • Mary Ward (ship), a passenger and cargo steamer built in Montreal in 1895
  • Mary Alice Ward (1896–1972), Australian teacher and pastoralist
  • Mary Jane Ward (1905–1981), American writer
  • Mary Mae Ward, a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital

Famous quotes containing the words mary and/or ward:

    “He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
    —Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)

    “One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
    —Humphrey, Mrs. Ward (1851–1920)