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Anthologization | Viola Meynell | In December 1910, VM
and her siblings Francis
, Olivia
, and Monica
published a poetryanthology called Eyes of Youth (a phrase taken from Shakespeare
's The Merry Wives of Windsor), which included, along... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Viola Meynell | The Meynells enjoyed the company of Lawrence and his wife until he published in the English Review his story entitled England, My England (October 1915). The story allegedly misrepresents the events that caused the physical... |
Literary responses | Viola Meynell | 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. 153 |
Publishing | Antonia White | It then appeared as the first book issued by the new firm of Desmond Harmsworth
, whose founder and owner was the lover of AW
's friend Wyn Henderson
. Two thousand copies were printed... |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | Her Ten Poems, written between 1913 and 1915, also appeared in 1915, privately published by her youngest son, Francis
, at the Romney Street Press
. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 230 Connolly, Terence L., editor. Alice Meynell Centenary Tribute. Bruce Humphries, 1948. 44 |
Reception | Alice Meynell | A Centenary Exhibition about AM
was organised in London in 1947. Francis Meynell
, her youngest son, published a catalogue to the exhibition the same year. Boston College
also held a centenary celebration, with reminiscences... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | She helped W. G. Fay
to write his history of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (1935), which emphasises the actors and those who managed the... |
Textual Production | Viola Meynell | In 1924 she and Francis
together edited another anthology of poems and songs (the latter with music appended), called The Week-End Book. This was popular; it went through several revisions and new editions. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | In these essays AM
depicts with clarity, gentleness, and humour the experience and perceptions of the child. She aims to avoid sentimentality and to take the child's mind seriously, even when relaying the adult's aesthetic... |
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