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- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
English girls' schools today 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.
- Rank
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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- Nov 07, 2020