Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
Contents
WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway — Wells — Rain — The Tow Path — The Tethered Constellations — Rushes and Reeds — IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy — Pathos — Anima Pellegrina! — A Point of Biography — The Honours of Mortality — Composure — The Little Language — A Counterchange — Harlequin Mercutio — COMMENTARIES: Laughter — The Rhythm of Life — Domus Angusta — Innocence and Experience — The Hours of Sleep — Solitude — Decivilized — WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place — Popular Burlesque — Have Patience, Little Saint — At Monastery Gates — The Sea Wall — ARTS: Tithonus — Symmetry and Incident — The Plaid — The Flower — Unstable Equilibrium — Victorian Caricature — The Point of Honour — THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life — The Horizon — In July — Cloud — Shadows — WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century — Mrs. Dingley — Prue — Mrs. Johnson — Madame Roland — THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird — The Child of Tumult — The Child of Subsiding Tumult — The Unready — That Pretty Person — Under the Early Stars — The Illusion of Historic Time.