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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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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 A. Ward

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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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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

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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

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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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