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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.

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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

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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.

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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

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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.

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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

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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.

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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: June 11th, 1851

Died: March 24th, 1920

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