Wilfrid Meynell

MFB was a contributor to the first issue of Merry England, an illustrated literary monthly magazine launched in London by Alice and Wilfrid Meynell and sold for one shilling.

Back in London she acquired a circle of largely musical friends, many of them later well-known names, including Myra Hess and Clifford and Arnold Bax . Later this circle expanded to include literary people: Viola Meynell

EF prints here the letters written to her by Thomas, whom she loved (though he did not return her love), and who was killed in the First World War. She provides a vivid context for...

MBL began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice and Wilfrid Meynell from May 1883 to...

She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

Alice Thompson married Wilfrid Meynell , a journalist and editor who had converted to Catholicism at eighteen.

AM and her husband bought a country house called Humphrey's Homestead at Greatham, near Storrington in Sussex.

AM became acquainted with the poet Francis Thompson (no relation), a thin, nervous man, ravaged by drug-taking, over a year after he had submitted a manuscript to Wilfrid Meynell for publication in Merry England.

This side of her prolific career lasted for more than thirty years. By 1881 she was writing reviews and art and literary criticism for the Scots Observer (which lasted till nearly the end of the...

Although she was both widely respected and popular, AM 's journalism came under the standard editorial scrutiny, while her husband 's work was sent to the printer's unchecked. Wilfrid also received special terms while Alice...

AM later said she was pleased with The First Snow and Maternity because she found them two of her most undecorated, or simple, poems. She wrote to her husband that more undecorated, henceforth, my...

Because AM did not wish to talk to her husband about the possibility of her death, she prepared for Cock a List of Poems to be published in book form (if occasion occurs posthumously). No...

VM published her second biographical work, which again looks at her family's life: Francis Thompson and Wilfrid Meynell : A Memoir, told mainly through unpublished letters.

Wilfrid Meynell , Viola's father, co-edited the journal Merry England with his wife. For eighteen years he edited the Weekly Register, a Catholic periodical. He died on 21 October 1948.

Certain that the small religious firm Herbert and Daniel would not want this work, VM approached Martin Secker , newly established in 1909, who agreed to publish it even before reading it, on grounds of...