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Mary Ward (Adult Education) Centre website. Bluffton University page on the Mary Ward Settlement and its architects (accessed 8 October 2009). Mary Ward Settlement – part of the London Metropolitan Archives Collection (accessed 26 November 2013)
Mary Ward House is a listed building and conference centre in Bloomsbury, in London, England. It was the headquarters of the National Institute for Social Work Training, part of the settlement movement. Built between 1896 and 1898, the building is located on Tavistock Place, between Tavistock Square and Marchmont Street.
Mary Ward, IBVM CJ (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645) [1] was an English Catholic religious sister whose activities led to the founding of the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loreto. There is now a network of around 200 Mary Ward schools worldwide. [2]
In 2002 this congregation was allowed to adopt the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, as had been envisaged by Mary Ward. At that time they adopted the name which she had intended for them. [4] At present there are some 2,000 members of the congregation. The English sisters of the congregation have communities in York, London and Cambridge.
Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. [1] She worked to improve education for the poor setting up a Settlement in London and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League .
The book Mary Ward by Ida Friederike Görres (née von Coudenhove) presents the life of Catholic nun Venerable Mary Ward (1585 –1645). It was originally published in German in 1932 by Verlag Anton Pustet under the title Mary Ward: Eine Heldenlegende and republished in 1952 by Verlag Herder under the title Das grosse Spiel der Maria Ward .
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In May 2018, following a difficult financial period, Blackfriars Settlement merged with Mary Ward Settlement. It remains a separately constituted charity, but is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mary Ward Settlement. In 2019, the organization received funding for pop-up friendliness cafés. [21]