Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor, editors. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press.
Wilfrid Meynell
Standard Name: Meynell, Wilfrid
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Mary Frances Billington | |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Farjeon | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eleanor Farjeon | 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... |
Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson
married Wilfrid Meynell
, a journalist and editor who had converted to Catholicism at eighteen. AM
's daughter-biographer Viola Meynell
, however, dated her parents' wedding to the autumn 1877. Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape. 61 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 67 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Residence | Alice Meynell | AM
and her husband
bought a country house called Humphrey's Homestead at Greatham, near Storrington in Sussex. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 204 Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape. 270-1 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | AM
became acquainted with the poet Francis Thompson
(no relation), a thin, nervous man, ravaged by drug-taking, Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 74 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 73-4 |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | 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... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | 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... |
Reception | Alice Meynell | 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... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | 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... |
Textual Production | Viola Meynell | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Meynell | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 70 MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen. 304 |
Publishing | Viola Meynell | 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... |
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