Alice Meynell — a remark

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“At present the shepherd should not be in the van, unless his eye for grass be very keen; he will be in danger of being left in somewhat ignominious isolation. He must guide indeed, but he must guide from behind.”

Advising a subtle and responsive approach to literary criticism and guidance · Essay, The Pen, 1881

About Alice Meynell

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…

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