Alice Meynell

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Standard Name: Meynell, Alice
Birth Name: Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson
Indexed Name: A. C. Thompson
Pseudonym: A. C. Thompson
Married Name: Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell
Pseudonym: Alice Oldcastle
Pseudonym: Francis Phillimore
AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during her lifetime (not including those selected or anthologised). AM 's poetry and journalism were both guided by her voluntary obedience to the Catholic Church . Stylistically innovative, her essays pay close attention to form on the one hand and empirical truth on the other. Her reputation during her lifetime was astonishingly high. Male contemporaries like George Meredith and Coventry Patmore ranked her poetry and prose with the greatest writers of the English tradition.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
98
Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton.
107, 178
Black and white photograph of Alice Meynell, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a black satin dress with puffed sleeves and a sun-shaped pin in the top left corner of the bodice. She has a strand of pearls around her neck and short, dark curly hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
WBY published The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. His idiosyncratic selection included Alice Meynell , Ezra Pound , Edith Sitwell , Rabindranath Tagore , Sylvia Townsend Warner , and his friend Dorothy Wellesley .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
280n27
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Roma White
In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW was clearly succeeding in the literary world, fashioning for herself a distinct poetic persona. Linda Hughes finds evidence of this in Katharine Tynan 's essay A Literary Causerie, which appeared in The Speaker...
Reception Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW 's retirement from Sylvia's Journal did not hinder her growing literary reputation. In April 1894 she was featured (as Graham R. Tomson and with a flattering photograph) alongside E. Nesbit , Christina Rossetti ,...
Dedications Rosamund Marriott Watson
She dedicated Vespertilia and Other Verses, which appeared by 30 November 1895, to Alice Meynell with Sincere Admiration and Friendship.
Hughes, Linda K. “’Fair <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Hymen</span> holdeth hid a world of woes’: Myth and Marriage in Poems by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 2, pp. 97-120.
98
Hughes, Linda K. “A Fin-de-Siècle Beauty and the Beast: Configuring the Body in Works by ’Graham R. Tomson’ (Rosamund Marriott Watson)”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
14
, No. 1, pp. 95-121.
117n26
Several of the poems had been previously published in Longman's, Scribner's...
Publishing Rosamund Marriott Watson
The book is dedicated with affection and esteem
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. G. Bell and Sons.
prelims
to art critic and professor R. A. M. Stevenson (cousin of the famous novelist). Earlier versions of the essays had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
vii-viii
Her diction is pure, he...
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird , E. Nesbit , Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Alice Meynell . She was also a friend of William Sharp , Austin Dobson
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
By the late 1880s she was successfully publishing in several periodicals. Over the next years, she contributed reviews, poems, and articles to a wide range of publications (both at home and abroad), including Longman's...
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
Along with Alice Meynell , KT attended the first Women Writers' Dinner. (Said to be the brainchild of Honor Morten , this became a great annual London event, held at the Trocadero restaurant.)
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
330
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson.
71
Residence Katharine Tynan
Having moved from Ealing, KT and her husband lived for four years in the Crescent in Notting Hill, in order to be near the MeynellWilfrid Meynell s.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
154
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
183
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
Among those who frequented KT 's salon were George Russell (Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary , Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde (founder of the Gaelic League , 1893), and George Sigerson
Travel Katharine Tynan
KT returned to London on 27 May 1889 at the behest of her close friends the MeynellWilfrid Meynell s. She remained there for four months, staying alternately with the Meynells and with the Yeatses (who were...
Family and Intimate relationships Katharine Tynan
They held their marriage ceremony at the home of the MeynellWilfrid Meynell s in Palace Court, London. On her marriage KT took her husband's name for social and personal purposes, although she continued to publish...

Timeline

1879: Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler,...

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1879

Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler , sister of poet Alice Meynell , fought unsuccessfully to become the first woman elected as a Royal Academy member.

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.

Texts

Meynell, Alice. A Father of Women, and Other Poems. Burns and Oates, 1917.
Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape, 1947.
Meynell, Alice. Ceres’ Runaway. Constable, 1909.
Meynell, Alice. “Christina Rossetti”. New Review, Vol.
12
, pp. 201-6.
Meynell, Alice. Collected Poems of Alice Meynell. Burns and Oates, 1913.
Meynell, Alice. Essays. Burns and Oates, 1914.
Meynell, Alice. Hearts of Controversy. Burns and Oates, 1917.
Meynell, Alice, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Introduction”. Prometheus Bound and Other Poems, Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1896, p. v - xv.
Meynell, Alice. “Introduction”. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry, edited by Vita Sackville-West et al., Jonathon Cape, 1947, pp. 7-26.
Meynell, Alice. John Ruskin. Blackwood, 1900.
Meynell, Alice. Later Poems. J. Lane, 1901.
Meynell, Alice. Other Poems. Privately printed, 1896.
Meynell, Alice. Poems on the War. Privately printed by Clement Shorter, 1915.
Meynell, Alice, and Elizabeth Thompson. Preludes. Henry S. King, 1875.
Meynell, Alice. “Renouncement”. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
Meynell, Alice. “Summer in England, 1914”. Times.
Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane, 1896.
Meynell, Alice. The Colour Of Life. John Lane, 1896.
Meynell, Alice, editor. The Flower of the Mind. G. Richards, 1897.
Meynell, Alice. “The Lady of the Lambs”. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
Meynell, Alice. The Last Poems of Alice Meynell. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1923.
Meynell, Alice. The Rhythm of Life. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
Meynell, Alice. The Second Person Singular. H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921.
Meynell, Alice. The Spirit of Place. John Lane, 1898.