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Alice Meynell Writer

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Sep 22, 1847
  • Died: Nov 27, 1922

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

Meynell was born in Barnes, London, to Thomas James and Christiana (née Weller) Thompson. The family moved around England, Switzerland, and France, but she was brought up mostly in Italy, where a daughter of Thomas from his first marriage had settled. Her father was a friend of Charles Dickens.

Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth (the artist Lady Elizabeth Butler, 1850 - 1933, whose husband was Sir William Francis Butler). The work was warmly praised by Ruskin, although it received little public notice. Ruskin especially singled out the sonnet Renunciation for its beauty and delicacy.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. change

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. happiness

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. humor