Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape.
27-34
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Textual Production | Alice Meynell | |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore
, Francis Thompson
, George Meredith
, Vita Sackville-West
, and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death, Meynell, Alice. Alice Meynell: Prose and Poetry. Editors Page, Frederick and Vita Sackville-West, Jonathon Cape. 27-34 |
Textual Production | Viola Meynell | VM
published her second biographical work, which again looks at her family's life: Francis Thompson
and Wilfrid Meynell
: A Memoir, told mainly through unpublished letters. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Textual Features | Viola Meynell | The story told is that of the Meynell family and their circle, especially of the family's rescue and cherishing of the unworldly poet Thompson
. |
Occupation | Viola Meynell | Her first broadcast was, appropriately, on her mother, Alice Meynell
. The BBC director praised her for being the best first-time presenter he had ever seen. She followed up with programmes on Francis Thompson
,... |
Literary responses | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rose Allatini | A study in temperament, this novel opens with its young hero, Ruan Scorrier, watching the outgoing tide turn on a beach on the rugged north Cornish coast, and imagining feelings for the sand and for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Antonia White | |
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. 74 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 73-4 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Sigerson | After her marriage, DS
became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith
(who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy
(who wrote the... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | Living in a suburb of London, KT
frequented the heart of English literary culture. She had already joined London's Irish Literary Society
, and was later appointed its Honorary Vice-President. Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable. 3-4 |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Fictionalization | Viola Meynell | Poet Francis Thompson
, a family friend who was fond of VM
, wrote for her the poem To Stars, to lift her spirits after she had an accident falling from a balcony. His... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | She bore eight children, of whom one died in infancy. As the family grew, financial worries forced her to work unceasingly. Katharine Tynan
was godmother to Olivia
, born in 1890, and Francis Thompson
was... |
Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
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