Essays

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

Contents

WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time.