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Mary A. Ward
Poor teaching, poor school-books, and, in many cases, indifferent food and much ignorance as to the physical care of girls - these things were common in my school-time.
Mary A. Ward
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
Mary A. Ward
Only three years intervened between my leaving school and my engagement to Mr. T. Humphry Ward, Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford.
Mary A. Ward
One of my clearest memories connected with the Pattisons and Lincoln is that of meeting George Eliot and Mr. Lewes there, in the spring of 1870, when I was eighteen.
Mary A. Ward
My mother was the granddaughter of one of the first Governors of Tasmania, Governor Sorell, and had been brought up in the colony, except for a brief schooling at Brussels.
Mary A. Ward
My husband was already writing in the Saturday Review and other quarters, and had won his literary spurs as one of the three authors of that jeu d'esprit of no small fame in its day, the Oxford Spectator.
Mary A. Ward
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 A. Ward
My father was at Oxford all through the agitated years which preceded Newman's secession from the Anglican communion.
Mary A. Ward
It was in July, 1865, while I was still a school-girl, that in the very middle of the Long Vacation I first saw Oxford.
Mary A. Ward
It was in 1885, after the completion of the Amiel translation, that I began Robert Elsmere, drawing the opening scenes from that expedition to Long Sleddale in the spring of that year which I have already mentioned.