The History of David Grieve

The History of David Grieve relates the story of two orphan children, being brought up by their aunt and uncle in the lee of Kinder Scout in the Derbyshire Peak District, before 'escaping' to live in the Manchester of the mid-nineteenth century. Mrs Humphry Ward, nee Mary Augusta Arnold,was born in Hobart,Australia, in June 1851. She came to live in England at the age of sixteen and married Humphry Ward who was also a writer. She regularly visited Manchester in the 1880's to stay with her brother, W.T. (Willy) Arnold, who lived in Nelson Street and worked as a sub-editor on the Manchester Guardian.An absorbing tale by one of the late Victorian period's outstanding novelists.