Josephine Mary Hope-Scott Ward (1864-1932) was a descendent on one side from the Dukes of Norfolk and on the other side from Anglican lawyers and writers. In 1887 Josephine married Wilfrid Ward, and spent her life in close companionship with the most active minds working in the late 19th century to restore to the Catholic Church in England the intellectual, sacramental and theological integrity it had once enjoyed before three hundred years of persecution. She wrote numerous novels, theological pamphlets, and articles for the Dublin Review and The Spectator.