Author:Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
(1847–1922)

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell

Works

• The poor Sisters of Nazareth (1889)
• The rhythm of life, and other essays (1893) (external scan)
• The colour of life, and other essays on things seen and heard (1896) (external scan)
• The children (1896) (external scan)
• London impressions: etchings and pictures in photogravure (1898) (external scan)
• The spirit of place, and other essays (1899)
• John Ruskin (1900) (external scan)
• Children of the old masters, Italian school (1903) (external scan)
• Ceres' runaway, and other essays (1910) (external scan)
• Samuel Johnson (1911, with G. K. Chesterton)
• Mary, the Mother of Jesus: an Essay (1912) (external scan)
• Childhood (1913)
• Essays (1914, not exhaustive)
• Hearts of Controversy (1917)
• The second person singular, and other essays (1921)
• The School of Poetry (1923)
• "Browning, Elizabeth Barrett," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Poetry

• Index of Titles
• Preludes (1875)
• Poems (1893, 10th ed. 1911) (external scan)
• "Unto us a Son is born", a poem (c. 1895)
• Other poems (1896, ten poems, privately printed)
• Later poems (1901 or 1902) (contains all of The Shepherdess, etc. (1914), plus two more poems) (external scan)
• The Shepherdess, and other poems (1914) (all poems contained in Later poems, 1902)
• Poems, collected edition (April 1913; 8th impr. Jan 1919; 9th impr. May 1921, enlarged ed.)
• Ten poems by Alice Meynell (1913-1915) (1915; all poems contained in A father of women, etc., 1917)
• Poems of the war (1915, privately printed by Clement Shorter)
• "In Sleep", from The Book of the Homeless (1916)
• A father of women, and other poems (1917, incorp. into above 1919 collected edition)
• Last Poems (1923)
• The poems of Alice Meynell, complete edition (1923)

Anthologized:

• 'Meynell, Alice', The Year's at the Spring, 1920. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
  • A Dead Harvest p. 57; November Blue p. 58; The Shepherdess p. 59.

Works about Meynell

• "Meynell, Mrs. Alice (Thompson)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Alice Meynell", a biographical sketch from The Poets' Chantry (1912) by Katherine Brégy.
• "To Alice Meynell", a poem by Florence Earle Coates (1912)
• Mentioned in a letter from Florence Earle Coates to Katherine Brégy (24 September 1912).