“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.” ThinkingBookGirlTermSummerSeventeenOxfordAlways Thinking Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“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.” FirstsCountrySchoolGirlCoursesFoundModernScore Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“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