Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

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.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

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

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.

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

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