The book Mary Ward by Ida Friederike Görres (née von Coudenhove) presents the life of Catholic nun Venerable Mary Ward (1585 –1645). It was originally published in German in 1932 by Verlag Anton Pustet under the title Mary Ward: Eine Heldenlegende and republished in 1952 by Verlag Herder under the title Das grosse Spiel der Maria Ward. It was translated into English by Elise Codd and published as Mary Ward in London in 1939 by Longmans, Green and Co.
Görres was likely inspired in part by her education at a convent school for girls in St. Pölten, Austria, run by nuns who belonged to an order founded by Mary Ward.