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Mary A. Ward
How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Mary A. Ward
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 A. Ward
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary A. Ward
English girls' schools to-day 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 A. Ward
Doctor Arnold's eldest daughter, Jane Arnold, afterward Mrs. W.E. Forster, my godmother, stands out for me on the tapestry of the past, as one of the noblest personalities I have ever known.
Mary A. Ward
But to me, in my twenties, these great names were not merely names or symbols, as they are to the men and women of the present generation.
Mary A. Ward
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
Mary A. Ward
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Mary A. Ward
But in truth, Renan, personally, was not the enemy of any church, least of all of the great Church which had trained his youth.
Mary A. Ward
But hardly any of us were at all on fire for woman suffrage, wherein the Oxford educational movement differed greatly from the Cambridge movement.