16-523: Mary Josephine " Maisie " Ward Sheed (4 January 1889 – 28 January 1975), who published under the name Maisie Ward , was a writer, speaker, and publisher. In 1926 Maisie's brother Leo Ward was invited to be co-founder of the publishing house Sheed and Ward , but he proved ill-suited to the work. Maisie took his place when Leo left to become a priest. She was born in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight on 4 January 1889,
32-604: A Methodist church but surreptitiously make his Catholic first communion and confirmation. He attended Sydney Boys’ High School and in 1917 obtained a BA degree from the University of Sydney. In 1920, Sheed travelled to London, where he encountered the Catholic Evidence Guild whose lay Catholics expounded the faith. He joined the group and became an effective soapbox orator. With an understanding of Protestant attitudes toward Catholicism, Sheed took up writing and speaking on
48-471: A charter member of the Catholic Evidence Guild . Ward was a forceful public lecturer. It was through the Guild that she met Frank Sheed . The couple have sometimes been cited as a modern Catholic example of street preaching . They were married in 1926; that same year, they moved to London and founded Sheed and Ward publishing. Ward gained fame for her authorized biography of friend G. K. Chesterton , written at
64-611: A constant stream of books touching on almost every aspect of basic theology , several of which remain in print. His translation of St. Augustine's Confessions remains acclaimed. In 1933 they opened a branch in New York and became "the most influential Catholic publishers in the English-speaking world". In 1956 Lille Catholic University awarded him a doctorate in divinity. He published an autobiography, The Church and I (1974). Frank Sheed died on 20 November 1981 at Jersey City and
80-438: A priest, Maisie took his place as publisher. Their son Wilfred Sheed was an essayist and novelist; their daughter, Rosemary, a translator. As publisher of an all-star roster including Karl Adam , Hilaire Belloc , G. K. Chesterton , Christopher Dawson , Ida Friederike Görres , Ronald Knox , Hugh Pope , and Evelyn Waugh , Sheed maintained a robust Catholic faith while keeping abreast of progressive trends. Frank Sheed wrote
96-717: A time at the Bar Convent to study with her personally. On leaving school, Maisie returned home to work for her father when he served as editor of the Dublin Review . She worked for the Red Cross as a nursing aide during the First World War , alongside the Daughters of Charity and Sisters of Charity nurses. After her father's death in 1916 she co-edited with her mother a posthumous collection of his last lectures. In 1919, Ward became
112-564: The Isle of Wight, then Eastbourne , and finally in Dorking , before being sent off to board at St Mary's School, Cambridge . Here she was influenced by the preaching of Robert Hugh Benson and inspired by Mary Ward who had founded the order of nuns who ran the school. She remembered preparing for confirmation in 1905, when she was 16, with Mother Mary Loyola's book The Soldier of Christ, or, Talks Before Confirmation (1900), and she then boarded for
128-646: The United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group , which has since been subsumed into Bloomsbury Publishing . The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the University of Notre Dame . Frank Sheed Francis Joseph Sheed (20 March 1897 – 20 November 1981) was an Australian-born lawyer, Catholic writer, publisher, speaker, and lay theologian. He and his wife Maisie Ward were
144-839: The early 1930s Sheed and Ward operated the Catholic Book a Month Club. In 1973, Sheed and Ward was acquired by the Universal Press Syndicate ; the company was used as the base of the publisher Andrews McMeel . However, the Sheed and Ward name and backlist were later divested. The company was owned by the National Catholic Reporter from 1986 to 1998, when it was sold to the Priests of the Sacred Heart . The United States assets were acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and
160-457: The eldest of the five children of Wilfrid Philip Ward and the novelist Josephine Mary Hope-Scott Ward . On her mother's side she was descended from Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk and on her father's side from William George Ward , a prominent member of the Oxford Movement . All four of her grandparents were converts to Roman Catholicism . She spent her childhood at first on
176-465: The names behind the imprint Sheed & Ward and as forceful public lecturers in the Catholic Evidence Guild . Sheed was born in Sydney on 20 March 1897 to John Sheed, a descendant of Scottish Presbyterians, and English-born Mary Maloney. His mother's family were Irish Catholic . Baptized Catholic, at the insistence of their father, Frank Sheed and his brother Jack were raised Protestant . Frank attended
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#1733093328299192-471: The niece of James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour ; and the daughter of Wilfrid Philip Ward and the novelist Josephine Mary Hope-Scott Ward . Maisie and Frank's son, Wilfrid Sheed was also a writer, and their daughter, Rosemary Sheed was a translator. Sheed and Ward Sheed and Ward is a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward . The head office
208-481: The request of Chesterton's widow. Ward also wrote biographies of John Henry Newman , her own father, and Robert Browning ; and on other areas, including New Testament scholarship, spirituality, and stories of saints and lesser notables, among them her good friend, the writer and mystic Caryll Houselander . Maisie Ward died 28 January 1975 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sheed wrote a posthumous tribute to his wife under
224-521: The subject of Catholic apologetics , the rational defense of the Catholic faith. Through his activity with the Guild he met Maisie Ward , daughter of Wilfrid Ward , a prominent Catholic essayist and biographer. Sheed and Maisie Ward were married in April 1926. That same year, they moved to London, where Sheed and Maisie's brother Leo established the publishing house of Sheed and Ward. When Leo Ward left to become
240-421: The title The Instructed Heart . Ward was the great-great-grandniece of Robert Plumer Ward , father of Sir Henry George Ward and grandfather of Dudley Ward ; the great-granddaughter of William Ward , and of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk and Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons ; the granddaughter of William George Ward , and of James Hope-Scott and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Fitzalan-Howard ;
256-561: Was moved to New York in 1933. The United States assets of Sheed and Ward have been owned by Rowman & Littlefield since 2002, and those in the United Kingdom are owned by Bloomsbury Publishing . In 2022 Rowman & Littlefield began acquiring books under the Sheed & Ward brand again. Sheed and Ward published a number of major Roman Catholic authors of the 1920s through to the mid-twentieth century, including G. K. Chesterton , Hilaire Belloc , Christopher Dawson , Vincent McNabb , Leo J. Trese , Ronald Knox and Etienne Gilson . In
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