Wilfrid Meynell

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

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...

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

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

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.

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. He died on 21 October 1948.

Alice Thompson married Wilfrid Meynell , a journalist and editor who had converted to Catholicism at eighteen.

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...