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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, 1981. 70 MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 304 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | |
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, 1947. 61 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 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 |
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 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Susan Miles | During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot
, John Middleton Murry
, Edith Sitwell
, Wilfrid Meynell |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
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, 1981. 74 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 73-4 |
politics | Katharine Tynan | KT
accompanied Wilfrid Meynell
and Vernon Blackburn
to a mass meeting about the London Dock Strike, where she heard the socialist and unionist John Burns
speak. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 353 |
Publishing | Mary Frances Billington | 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. Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor, editors. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press, 2009. |
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... |
Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
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... |
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... |
Residence | Katharine Tynan |
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