It is the rank and file – the average woman – for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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! Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
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. Mary Augusta Ward Read Quote
