Wilfrid Meynell

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.