Author: Mary Augusta Ward

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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

- Mary Augusta Ward

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

- Mary Augusta Ward

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.

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

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

- Mary Augusta Ward

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

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

- Mary Augusta Ward

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.

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

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