The Mary Ward Centre, previously the Mary Ward Settlement, is an adult education college located in London. It was founded by Mary Augusta Ward as the Passmore Edwards Settlement, financed by John Passmore Edwards.
There is one centre at 42 Queen Square, where over 1,000 adult education classes are offered.
The former centre at 5 Tavistock Place (1898), designed by Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Claude Brewer is considered to be one of the best Arts and Crafts buildings in London . The original centre (originally the Passmore Edwards Settlement) is notable for two reasons: It was the site of the historic debate on women's suffrage between Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Mary (Mrs Humphry) Ward, Feb 1909 (Ward was president of the Anti-Suffrage League; she was decisively defeated); secondly the building housed the first fully equipped classrooms for children with disabilities and pioneered the importance of play within children's education .
Coordinates: 51°31′30″N 0°07′38″W / 51.5251°N 0.1273°W / 51.5251; -0.1273
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Colin Henry Wilson (born 26 June 1931) is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.
Born and raised in Leicester, England, Wilson left school at 16. He worked in factories and at various occupations, and read in his spare time.Gollancz published the then 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956; the work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent van Gogh; Wilson discusses his perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain.
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The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over thirty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual.