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
littles today lasts
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!
memorable creeds
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
stupid character class
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
marriage writing fiction
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
christian pain past
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
men stories found
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
lived newest nine north quarter till
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.