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Brief about Mary Augusta Ward: By info that we know Mary Augusta Ward was born at 1970-01-01. And also Mary Augusta Ward is British Novelist.
Some Mary Augusta Ward's quotes. Goto "Mary Augusta Ward's quotation" section for more.As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Tags: Concerned, Far, TrainingBut a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Tags: Books, Girl, ThinkingBut no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Tags: Conscience, MonopolyFor after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Tags: After, Marriage, WriteHow 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!
Tags: Last, Realize, TodayIt became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Tags: After, Marriage, SoonIt is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Tags: Average, Rank, WomanThe answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
Tags: Alone, Future, HopeA 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.
Tags: Books, Life, WriteA 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.
Tags: Country, Found, SchoolEnglish 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.
Tags: Education, Knowledge, WomenFor 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.
Tags: House, Lived, SpringI 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.
Tags: Child, Home, LovedI 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.
Tags: Character, Life, ReligionIn 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.
Tags: Art, Choice, TrustRelated topics
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