Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

British - Novelist | June 11, 1851 - March 24, 1920

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

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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.

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

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

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We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

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

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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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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.

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