Mary Augusta Ward, (1851-1920) was an English novelist, journalist, philanthropist, and anti-suffrage leader who wrote under the name of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Ward worked tirelessly for social improvement; she was responsible for the foundation of the Invalid Children’s School (1899) and for the establishment of evening play centers by the London County Council in 1905. She opposed the Women’s Suffrage Movement, however, fearing in emancipation a loss of women’s moral influence. In 1908, she founded the Anti-Suffrage League. Ward became editor of the journal, the Anti-Suffrage Review and as well as writing a large number of articles on the subject, several of her novels, notably, The Testing of Diana Mallory (1908) and Delia Blanchflower (1915) criticized women's suffrage campaigners.