Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
marriage partnership
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
trust art choices
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.
real women government
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.
interesting very-interesting
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
girl taken school
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.
mother daughter children
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
book writing exercise
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.
men monopoly conscience
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
years training intellectual
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
average world files
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
growing-up biblical years
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.
should-have cities venice
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
jesus age special
To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...
ideas expansion infinite
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.