It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Mary Augusta WardA 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.
Mary Augusta WardIn 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 WardI regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
Mary Augusta Ward