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.
On the basis of these poems, VM
's brother Francis
thought her to be a greater poet than their mother
, but others disagreed.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation
Germaine Greer
GG
's love of books also expresses itself acquisitively. She says she is not really a collector, but admits: Some people read Cosmopolitan, but I read Christie's
catalogues.
Healey, R. M. “Interview with Germaine Greer”. Book and Magazine Collector, Vol.
180
, pp. 26-34.
26
She names as the most...
Occupation
Constance Smedley
Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time...
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
,...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
121-3
politics
Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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Publishing
Violet Hunt
Here VH
caught the attention of other journal editors, and she was soon writing a weekly column, Wares of Autolycus, for the Pall Mall Gazette (a column later taken on by Alice Meynell
and...
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.
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
began early to publish short stories. In her diary she wrote that the first to see print was in a journal called Merry England (edited by Alice
and Wilfrid Meynell
from May 1883 to...
Publishing
Mary Cowden Clarke
On a visit to Westwood House at Sydenham in July 1881 MCC
was working on Uncle, Peep, and I: A Child's Novel, a book for American children suggested to her by Mrs Huntington; it...
Publishing
Rosamund Marriott Watson
The book is dedicated with affection and esteem
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. G. Bell and Sons.
prelims
to art critic and professor R. A. M. Stevenson
(cousin of the famous novelist). Earlier versions of the essays had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette...
Reception
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
's retirement from Sylvia's Journal did not hinder her growing literary reputation. In April 1894 she was featured (as Graham R. Tomson and with a flattering photograph) alongside E. Nesbit
, Christina Rossetti
,...
Residence
Katharine Tynan
Having moved from Ealing, KT
and her husband
lived for four years in the Crescent in Notting Hill, in order to be near the MeynellWilfrid Meynell
s.
