Essays by Alice Meynell
Reading edition
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