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Mary A. Ward
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary A. Ward
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Mary A. Ward
Inside, Fox How was comfortably spacious, and I remember what a palace it appeared to my childish eyes, fresh from the tiny cabin of a 400-ton sailing-ship, and the rough life of a colony.
Mary A. Ward
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 A. Ward
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 A. Ward
I married Mr. Thomas Humphry Ward, Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, on April 6, 1872, the knot being tied by my father's friend, my grandfather's pupil and biographer, Dean Stanley.
Mary A. Ward
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 A. Ward
I did, indeed, write a story for my children, which came out in 1880 - Milly and Olly; but that wrote itself and was a mere transcript of their little lives.
Mary A. Ward
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
Mary A. Ward
I can remember, too, being lifted - weak and miserable with toothache - in my father's arms to catch the first sight of English shores as we neared the mouth of the Thames; and then the dismal inn by the docks where we first took shelter.