Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
marriage writing fiction
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
littles today lasts
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!
should-have cities venice
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
generations graves grows
we all grow on somebody's grave ...
literature realizing enough
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
ideas expansion infinite
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
personality slavery chains
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
nature color delight
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...
daughter mother father
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.
years training intellectual
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
interesting very-interesting
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
teacher clever children
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.
marriage partnership
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.