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ALICE CHRISTIANA MEYNELL (1850— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALICE CHRISTIANA See also:

MEYNELL (1850— )  , See also:English poet and essayist, was the daughter of T . J . See also:Thompson . Her See also:early See also:life was spent chiefly in See also:Italy, and she was educated by her See also:father . Her first See also:volume of See also:verse, Preludes (1875), illustrated by her See also:sister See also:Elizabeth, afterwards See also:Lady See also:Butler, attracted little public See also:notice, but the delicacy and beauty of the poems and especially of the See also:sonnet " Renunciation," were warmly praised by See also:Ruskin . She married in 18i7 the well-known See also:Roman See also:Catholic journalist and author See also:Wilfrid See also:Meynell, who became proprietor and editor of the Weekly See also:Register . Under W . E . See also:Henley's editorship she wrote regularly in See also:prose for the See also:National Observer, and also later for the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette, the Saturday See also:Review, &c . Her Poems (1893), including much of the earlier volume of Preludes, brought her at last more definitely before the public; and this was followed in 1901 by another slender See also:book of delicate verse, Later Poems . Mrs Meynell also showed herself a See also:fine critic of See also:poetry by her admirable selection, The See also:Flower of the Mind (1897), an See also:anthology of English verse . She edited the Selected Poems (1894) of T .

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Hake, the Poetry of Pathos and Delight (1896) of her intimate friend See also:Coventry See also:Patmore, and the selections from Patmore in the " See also:Muses' Library." Her prose essays, remarkable for fineness of culture and See also:peculiar See also:restraint of See also:style, appeared in successive volumes as The See also:Rhythm of Life (1893), The See also:Colour of Life and other Essays (1896), The See also:Children (1897), and The Spirit of See also:Place (1898) . Later books are See also:London Impressions (1898) and The See also:Work of See also:John S . See also:Sargent (1903) . See W . See also:Archer, Poets of the Younger See also:Generation (1902) .

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