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Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
British Novelist
Born: Jun 11, 1851
Died: Mar 24, 1920
Century Far Girl Hope Today Years
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! Mary Augusta Ward
Today Those Schoolgirl How Sixties Little Century Realize Fifties Who Early Last Last Century
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 Augusta Ward
Art Trust Half Back Follow Follows More Only Instinct Over Look Sort Than Same Fiction Century Choice
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 Augusta Ward
Home Father Made Only Daughters How Shelter Died Eight Grandmother Youngest Whom Her Four Fox
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. Mary Augusta Ward
School Girl First Country Throughout Course Became Equipped Scores Modern Found Now
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Mary Augusta Ward
Training Nine Seven Concerned Practically Were Years Intellectual Sixteen As Far As Far Wasted
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 Augusta Ward
Home Clever Live Nowadays Hundred Till Affect Intellectually Begin Child Any Oxford Influences Loved Much Interests Teachers Nearly Earlier
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. Mary Augusta Ward
Son Our Born Daughters Were Children Two
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Mary Augusta Ward
Marriage Our Ours Soon Partnership Became Very Literary After Plain
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep. Mary Augusta Ward
Mind Far Travels Sleep

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