Sir George Tressady is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward. Originally published as a serial from 1895 to 1896,Sutherland, John (1991). Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian. Oxford University Press, p. 149. it was Ward's seventh novel.
This is the book that Miss Adeline Glendower, the elder of the Glendower half-sisters, has chosen for her seaside reading in The Sea Lady, a social satire by H. G. Wells.
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"Another Tract for the Times," The Book Buyer, Vol. 13, No. 10, 1896, pp. 641–642. "Mrs. Ward's New Novel," The Athenaeum, No. 3596, 1896, pp. 413–414. "Sir George Tressady," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 78, No. 470, 1896, pp. 841–843. Cooper, J.A. (1896). "Mrs. Ward's New Novel: A Review," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 179–181. Elliot, Arthur D. (1897). "Sir George Tressady," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 185, No. 379, pp. 84–109. Gilder, Jeannette L. (1896). "Shows Mrs. Ward’s Gifts," The Chicago Sunday Tribune, 27 September 1896, p. 33. Rives, Françoise (1974). "Fiction and Politics in Sir George Tressady." In: Politics in Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Janie Teissedou. Lille, France: Univ. de Lille III, pp. 185–202. Traill, H.D. (1896). "Sir George Tressady and the Political Novel," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. 60, No. 359, pp. 703–714 (rep. in The Living Age, Vol. 211, No. 2735, 1896, pp. 647–656.) Woods, Katharine Pearson (1896). "Mrs. Ward and 'The New Woman'," The Bookman, Vol. 4, pp. 245–247.
External links Sir George Tressady, at Internet Archive Sir George Tressady, at HathiTrust Sir George Tressady, Vol. II, at Project Gutenberg