Meynell, Alice.

Collected Poems.

Second Edition. London, Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 1940. Octavo. XIV, 222 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Illustration of the author by John Singer Sargent. Former copy of Reverend Guy Pritchard, St.Ethelreda, Ely and later from the library of Hilary Wakeman, Editor of “The Shop”.

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson 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. At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians’, the Zulus’, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Muslim revolt led by Muhammad Ahmed in the Sudan), many European scholars, writers, and artists, began to question Europe’s colonial imperialism. This led the Meynells and others in their circle to speak out for the oppressed. Alice Meynell was a vice-president of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League, founded by Cicely Hamilton and active 1908–19. (Wikipedia).

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 43547AB