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Summary

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London. 
 
Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice’s early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion brought a conversion to the Catholic faith.  Much of that viewpoint is seen in her first published volume in 1875, ‘Preludes’. 
 
In 1876 she married Wilfred Meynell, the newspaper publisher and editor and together they set up and published a number of magazines as well as publishing the initial works of several poets including Francis Thompson. 
 
Despite a hectic lifestyle of her own poetry and essays together with the family business she gave birth to eight children. Her health though was erratic, and she was frequently incapacitated by illness including migraines and depressions. 
 
As the new century dawned she along with many other artists began to question the colonial needs of Empire with its segregation and oppression. In particular she sought and gained a role in the Women’s Suffrage movement as it attempted to obtain greater equality for women.  
 
Today Alice is often overlooked for the quality and stature of her poetry which, during her career brought serious official consideration. She was twice considered but passed over for the post of poet laureate after the deaths of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
 
Alice Meynell died on 27th November 1922. She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. 
1 - The Poetry of Alice Meynell - An Introduction 
2 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
3 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell 
4 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
5 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
6 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
7 - In February by Alice Meynell 
8 - Cradle-Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell 
9 - Song. As the Inhastening Tide Doth Roll by Alice Meynell 
10 - Song of the Day to the Night by Alice Meynell 
11 - Soeur Monique. A Rondeau by Couperin by Alice Meynell 
12 - To A Lost Melody by Alice Meynell 
13 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
14 - A Shattered Lute by Alice Meynell 
15 - Regrets by Alice Meynell 
16 - Parted by Alice Meynell 
17 - After A Parting by Alice Meynell 
18 - Sonnet. Thoughts in Separation by Alice Meynell 
19 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
20 - My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden by Alice Meynell 
21 - Your Own Fair Youth by Alice Meynell 
22 - The Lover Urges the Better Thrift by Alice Meynell 
23 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
24 - The Love of Narcissus by Alice Meynell 
25 - An Unmarked Festival by Alice Meynell 
26 - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age by Alice Meynell 
27 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
28 - Maternity by Alice Meynell 
29 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
30 - Summer In England 1914 by Alice Meynell 
31 - The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell 
32 - Builders of Ruins by Alice Meynell 
33 - The Lady Poverty by Alice Meynell 
34 - At Night by Alice Meynell 
35 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
36 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
37 - Christ in The Universe by Alice Meynell 
38 - Veni Creator by Alice Meynell

Duration: about 1 hour (01:00:05)
Publishing date: 2014-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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