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.
From Mary Augusta Ward
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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.
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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.
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 children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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