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.
98
Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton, 1970.
PB
and her friend Lislie (Hope de Lisle Brock
) were thrilled at meeting Alice Meynell
, whose poetry they felt expressed the deepest feelings of [their] hearts.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
For generations PBS
appeared the quintessential image of the Romantic poet, whose work influenced such poets as Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, Alice Meynell
, Sarojini Naidu
—though for some of them he was...
Intertextuality and Influence
Viola Meynell
As the daughter of two writers, VM
began to write at an early age, as did her brothers and sisters. She was writing poetry when she was sixteen, submitting her poems to her mother
for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Roma White
In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...
Intertextuality and Influence
Phyllis Bottome
PB
met Alice Meynell
in June 1912. From an early ag, PB
had great enthusiasm for her poetry, which she read over and over. Despite some reservations about the influence of Catholicism on Meynell's writing...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB
's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902.
vii-viii
Her diction is pure, he...
Literary responses
Viola Meynell
Alice Meynell
initially felt that the book was too personal and outspoken. She asked Viola to lessen and modify and veil the detailed and repeated record of caresses, and added: These are things that are...
Literary responses
Christina Rossetti
Alice Meynell
in a posthumous review of Rossetti's work in the New Review in 1895 argued for the artistic perfection of poems like The Three Enemies and Uphill, Advent, which exhibit a strong and...
Literary responses
Viola Meynell
The Manchester Guardian enthusiastically praised this book,leading Alice Meynell
to comment: It fills me with happiness that Viola's meanings have found such a reader.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
153
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
Literary responses
Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
After languishing for more than a century, HET
's work has reappeared in the anthology of Victorian women poets edited by Angela Leighton
and Margaret Reynolds
.Leighton compares her unsentimenal poems on childbirth and motherhood...
Literary responses
Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
was clearly succeeding in the literary world, fashioning for herself a distinct poetic persona. Linda Hughes
finds evidence of this in Katharine Tynan
's essay A Literary Causerie, which appeared in The Speaker...
