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Lady Connie

1916 novel by Mary Augusta Ward

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ18648848 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lady Connie is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1916.

Plot

The story follows the titled and wealthy Lady Constance Bledlow, or "Lady Connie". After the death of her parents, Lady Connie moves in with her aunt and cousins in Oxford. Expected to adapt to this new society, she is instead dissatisfied with her life, however privileged. She longs for freedom and adventure, and questions traditional gender roles. The author explores Lady Connie's involvement in the suffragette movement, as well as her relationship with men, love, marriage, and social class amidst the changing societal norms of the Victorian era. At the same same, Lady Connie is involved in a love triangle.

Further reading

Boynton, H.W. (1916). "Some Stories of the Month," The Bookman, Vol. 44, No.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lady Connie” as 1916 novel by Mary Augusta Ward. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916. The account is most persuasive where Lady, Connie and novel can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1916 novel by Mary Augusta Ward. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18648848. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Lady Connie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.