As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Mary Augusta Ward concernintellectualpractically Change image and share on social
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. Mary Augusta Ward backbiblicaldraw Change image and share on social
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. Mary Augusta Ward bookgirloxford Change image and share on social
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many. Mary Augusta Ward hopeinterest 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
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. Mary Augusta Ward answerchristianchristianity 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
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
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. Mary Augusta Ward bearbegincharacter share on social
