Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

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

Life, Write, Books

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

School, Country, Found

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary Augusta Ward

Training, Far, Concerned

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Mary Augusta Ward

Girl, Thinking, Books

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Mary Augusta Ward

Conscience, Monopoly

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
Mary Augusta Ward

Mind, Sleep, Far

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

Education, Women, Knowledge

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary Augusta Ward

Marriage, Made, After

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
Mary Augusta Ward

Spring, House, Lived

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Mary Augusta Ward

Today, Last, Realize

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
Mary Augusta Ward

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

Home, Live, Child

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

Life, Religion, Character

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

Trust, Art, Same

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Mary Augusta Ward

Marriage, After, Soon

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward

Woman, Average, Rank

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

Home, Father, Made

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
Mary Augusta Ward

Children, Two, Son

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

Tell, Story, Seen

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

Hope, Future, Alone

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
Mary Augusta Ward

Women, Government, Real

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Nationality: British

Born: June 11, 1851

Died: March 24, 1920

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