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!

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• Mary Augusta Ward:

  A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course n

• Mary Augusta Ward:

  As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically

• Mary Augusta Ward:

  English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worth

• Mary Augusta Ward:

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

• Mary Augusta Ward:

  I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I

• Mary Augusta Ward:

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

• Mary Augusta Ward:

  For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks,

• Mary Augusta Ward:

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

• Mary Augusta Ward:

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

• Mary Augusta Ward:

  We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for br