Alice meynell biography

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Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was born on October 11, , in Barnes, west London, to Thomas Thompson, a lover of literature and friend of Charles Dickens, and Christiana Weller, a noted painter and concert pianist. Thompson insisted on a classical education for his children, who were homeschooled. This education, as well as the verses of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti , inspired Meynell to try writing poetry as a teen.

Meynell suffered from poor health throughout her childhood and adolescence. Meynell wrote in The Tablet against Father Henry Day who in Liverpool and Manchester preached against votes for women risking 'bringing a revolution of the first magnitude'. Meynell retorted 'I say, most gravely, the vaster the magnitude of the revolution, the better. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the only other female potential laureate up to that time.

Neither of these women were given the recognition of this status with the first and only female to hold that honorary post, appointed by the monarch, being Carol Ann Duffy in After a series of illnesses, including migraine and depression, Meynell died on 27 November aged A posthumous collection of her Last Poems was published by Burns and Oates, a year later.

There is a London County Council commemorative blue plaque on the front wall of the property at 47 Palace Court, Bayswater, London, W2, where she and her husband once lived. The slender tree : a life of Alice Meynell. Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House.

Alice meynell biography

ISBN Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Cambridge University Press. Archer, William London and New York: John Lane. Rain The visible world is etched and engraved with the signs and records of our halting apprehension. The rhythm of life If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Rushes and reeds Our green country is the better for the grey, soft, cloudy darkness of the sedge.

The sea wall More candid is the author who has no world, but turns that appeal inwards to his own heart. Shadows Turn sunward from the north, and shadows come to life, and are themselves the life, the action, and the transparence of their day. Solitude There are the multitudes to whom civilization has given little but its reaction, its rebound, its chips, its refuse, its shavings, sawdust and waste, its failures; to them solitude is a right foregone or a luxury unattained.

The spirit of place The spirit of place, which is to be seen in the shapes of the fields and the manner of the crops, to be felt in a prevalent wind, breathed in the breath of the earth, overheard in a far street-cry or in the tinkle of some black-smith, calls out and peals in the cathedral bells. The sun The sun that leaps from a mountain peak is a sun past the dew of his birth; he has walked some way towards the common fires of noon.

But on the flat country the uprising is early and fresh, the arc is wide, the career is long. Symmetry and incident You find, in Japanese compositions, complete designs in which there is no point of symmetry. The tow path If your natural walk is heavy, there is spirit in the tackle to give it life, and if it is buoyant it will be more buoyant under the buoyant burden—the yielding check—than ever before.