Quotes by "Mary A. Ward"
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
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.
How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
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.
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
