Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton.
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.)
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson.
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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
In 1896 SG
met George Meredith
(who had rejected her manuscript of The Heavenly Twins some years earlier) and Alice Meynell
in the Surrey Hills, at Burford Bridge Hotel,Box Hill, near Dorking.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Viola Meynell
Viola's mother was the poet Alice Meynell
, who was nominated twice for the Poet Laureateship, although she never received it. She was also an essayist and journalist. She died on 27 November 1922.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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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...
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.
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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.
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Several of the poems had been previously published in Longman's, Scribner's...
Dedications
Katharine Tynan
On hearing of the working title of her volume, Yeats had written, I am sure you will under the circumstances alter the title as the appearance of a book with the title you propose would...
