I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
