biography
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Meynell, Alice (Christiana Gertrude)
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née Thompson
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1847–1922)
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| biography:
| Essayist and poet, born in London, UK. She spent her childhood on the mainland of Europe, and became a convert to Catholicism. Her volumes of essays include The Colour of Life (1896) and Hearts of Controversy (1917). She published several collections of her own poems, starting in 1875 with Preludes. In 1877 she married Wilfrid Meynell (1852–1948), author and journalist, with whom she launched the journal Merry England (1883–95), for which she wrote many essays. |
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