Marcella is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward, first published in 1894.
The eponymous heroine is the Marcella that Miss Adeline Glendower, the elder of the Glendower half-sisters, aspires to be in The Sea Lady, a social satire by H. G. Wells.
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"Marcella: Mrs. Humphry Ward's New Novel on Socialism and Wealth," Review of Reviews, Vol. 9, 1894, pp. 492–493. "Marcella and Pembroke," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 74, No. 442, 1894, pp. 272–74. "Mrs. Ward’s Marcella," Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 142, 1894, pp. 446–447. "The Marcellas and Mintas of Society," The Congregationalist, Vol. 80, No. 10, March 1895, p. 361. Barry, W.F. (1894). "The Strike of a Sex," The Quarterly Review, Vol. 179, No. 358, pp. 289–318. Crawford, F. Marion (May 1894). "Marcella: Mrs. Humphry Ward’s New Novel," Current Literature, Vol. 15, No. 5, p. 396. Herrero Granado, M. Dolores (1995). "Defiance in Disguise: Mary Ward’s Ambivalent Concept of Women as Reflected in Marcella," English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 445–465. Johnson, Lionel P. (1921). "Marcella." In: Reviews and Critical Papers. Ed. Robert Shafer. London: Elkin Mathews, pp. 58–65. Rowland-Brown, Lilian (1920). "Heroines of Mrs Humphry Ward," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. 113, pp. 886–896. Rives, Françoise (1980). "The Marcellas, Lauras, Dianas... of Mrs Humphrey Ward," Caliban, Vol. 17, pp. 69–79. Shand, A. Innes (1894). "Marcella," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 180, no. 369, pp. 108–130. Smalley, George W. (1895). "Mrs. Humphry Ward." In: Studies of Men. London: Macmillan and Co., pp. 226–236. Van Ness, Mary Wickliffe (1898). "Mrs. Humphry Ward's Marcella." In: Matthew Arnold and the Spirit of the Age. New York: Knickerbocker Press, pp. 123–128.