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.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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

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

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

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.