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Alice Meynell was born on October 11, 1847, in Barnes, London, to Thomas James and Christiana (née Weller) Thompson.
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Hearts of Controversy - By Alice Meynell - New Edition. 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 . . . Her prose essays were remarkable for fineness of culture and peculiar restraint of style." Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born in Barnes, London, to Thomas James and Christiana (nee 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, 18501933, 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. After Alice, the entire Thompson family converted to the Catholic Church (1868 to 1880), and her writings migrated to subjects of religious matters. This eventually led her to the Catholic newspaper publisher and editor Wilfrid Meynell (18521948) in 1876. A year later (in 1877) she married Meynell, and they settled in Kensington. They became the proprietors and editors of such magazines as The Pen, the Weekly Register, and Merry England, among others. Alice and Wilfrid Meynell had eight children, Sebastian, Monica, Everard, Madeleine, Viola, Vivian (who died at three months), Olivia, and Francis. Viola Meynell (18851956) became an author in her own right, and the youngest child Francis Meynell (18911975) was a poet and printer, co-founding the Nonesuch Press.
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Alice Meynell was born on October 11, 1847, in Barnes, London, to Thomas James and Christiana (née Weller) Thompson.
Meynell was educated at home by her father.
Encouraged by Alfred Tennyson and Coventry Patmore, she published her first volume of poems, Preludes, in 1875. She subsequently published Poems (1893) and Later Poems (1902); Last Poems (1923) was published posthumously.
One sonnet, "My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden, " brought her the friendship of Wilfrid Meynell. She continued to pursue her literary activities, helping her husband, who edited the Weekly Register, and in 1883 they launched Merry England (1883–1895), a monthly magazine for which she wrote many essays. Her numerous volumes of prose include biographies of William Holman Hunt and John Ruskin, collections of essays (The Rhythm of Life, 1893; The Spirit of Place, 1899), and devotional writing.
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell died on November 27, 1922.
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Quotations:
"It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. "
"Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion. "
In 1877, Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell married Wilfrid Meynell. They had eight children.