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, 1970.
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Black and white photograph of Alice Meynell, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a black satin dress with puffed sleeves and a sun-shaped pin in the top left corner of the bodice. She has a strand of pearls around her neck and short, dark curly hair.

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Travel Katharine Tynan
KT returned to London on 27 May 1889 at the behest of her close friends the MeynellWilfrid Meynell s. She remained there for four months, staying alternately with the Meynells and with the Yeatses (who were...

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