It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Mary Augusta Ward literarymarriagepartnership Change image and share on social
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. Mary Augusta Ward artbackcentury Change image and share on social
But no man has a monopoly of conscience. Mary Augusta Ward consciencemanmonopoly Change image and share on social
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. Mary Augusta Ward boarderceasecountry Change image and share on social
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. Mary Augusta Ward daughterdiefather Change image and share on social
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. Mary Augusta Ward bookdrawbackexercise Change image and share on social
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. Mary Augusta Ward affectawakebegin share on social
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Mary Augusta Ward attemptfailurefiction Change image and share on social
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. Mary Augusta Ward astonishcenturyeducation share on social
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. Mary Augusta Ward bearchilddaughter Change image and share on social
