Viola Meynell

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Standard Name: Meynell, Viola
Birth Name: Viola Mary Gertrude Meynell
Married Name: Viola Mary Gertrude Dallyn
Nickname: Prue
VM wrote during the earlier part of the twentieth century. Her fairly slender output includes religious novels, poetry, essays, short stories, and book reviews. Her richly emotional and subtle style is often structured by Christian diction and allusion. She tends to give her central characters happy endings heavily freighted with the symbolism of re-birth, but intense penitence for past actions is often first demanded of her female protagonists. Her positive critical reception was perhaps coloured by the high literary standing of her mother; she has as yet awakened no serious revival of interest.

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Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
Immediately after AM 's death, her daughter Viola began collecting material for a biography, Alice Meynell: A Memoir, which was published in 1929. AM 's writing has been anthologised in English Critical Essays, Twentieth...
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...
Travel Katharine Tynan
KT travelled through Italy in the spring of 1921 with a party of seven other women, including writer Viola Meynell .
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
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Further excursions lay ahead of her. She travelled throughout France in what she...

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