Meynell, Alice
Meynell, Alice , née Thompson ( 1847 – 1922 ).She became a Roman Catholic in 1868 , and in 1875 published her first volume of poetry, Preludes, which attracted the attention of Wilfrid Meynell ( 1852 – 1948 ), author and editor, whom she married in 1877 . She had many friends in the literary world, including F. Thompson , Meredith , and Patmore , and a busy domestic life. Her poetic inspiration was intermittent, but her several volumes of verse, which include Poems ( 1893 ), Later Poems ( 1902 ), and Last Poems ( 1923 ), won her a considerable reputation; many of her most successful poems deal with the theme of religious mystery. She is perhaps now more admired for her essays, introductions, and anthologies, which, despite her prolific output, manifest independence and sensitivity of critical judgement; her essays, published in the National Observer, the Pall...
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