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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!

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Today , How , Realize , Last


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Women , Progress , Government , Growth


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Look , Back , Story , Us


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Say , Will , Hope , Interesting


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Life , About , Write , Exercise


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Look , Art , Trust , I Can


The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Teacher , Future , Alone , Hope


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Home , Father , Her , Grandmother


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  First , Now , School , Country


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Years , Training , Far , Intellectual


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