The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays

by Alice MEYNELL (1847 - 1922)

The Point of Honour

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." This is a diverse collection of essays ranging from reflections on The Sun, and The Flower to the literary figures of Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell. - Summary by Larry Wilson


Listen next episodes of The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays:
Composure , Domus Angusta , Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes , Innocence and Experience , James Russell Lowell , Mr. Coventry Patmore’s Odes , Penultimate Caricature , Rejection , The Lesson of Landscape