Phrase by 'Mary Augusta Ward'

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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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Education , Today , Women , Knowledge


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Up , World , Average , Woman


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Home , Teachers , Loved , Child


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Always , Thinking , Girl , Summer


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.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  House , University , Spring , Town


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Children , Two , Son , Born


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Marriage , After , Soon , Partnership


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

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Fiction , Write , Marriage , Made


But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Mind , Sleep , Far , Travels


But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Author: Mary Augusta Ward - British Novelist
  Man , Conscience , Monopoly


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