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

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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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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

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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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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 A. Ward

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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 A. Ward

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