“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man.”
About Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922
Alice Meynell, born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on 11 October 1847 and dead on 27 November 1922, was one of the most distinctive English writers to work across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. A poet of exquisite compression, an essayist of alert and sensuous intelligence, a critic, editor, Catholic…