“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.” TodaySchoolLastsGirlEducationHalfTakenCenturyHigherIntellectualStandardsProvidingRepresentativesAstonishingHigher Education Book:Marcella Source: Marcella
“How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!” LittlesTodayLastsRealizingCenturySixty Book:Marcella Source: Marcella
“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.” LooksArtI CanChoicesHalfFictionCenturyTrustInstinctHalf A Century Author:Mary Augusta Ward