The complete online text of Lady Connie by Mary Augusta 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 sci...

During the final years of my Aunt Connie's long life - it spanned nearly the entire 20th century, from 1903 to 1998 - I used to visit her once a month in the quaint row house she owned in West Philadelphia. I wrote...

Byline: Shannon Pettypiece Director Consortium of African American Organizations There is the old Connie Holdipp and the new Connie. The "old Connie,'' as Ms. Holdipp, 54, refers to herself, was a workaholic who wouldn't pose for a newspaper photo...