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
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.
daughter mother father
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.
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.
sleep mind
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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.
girl country school
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.
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!