Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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    “She is so circumspect and right;
    She has her soul to keep.”
    —Alice Meynell (1847–1922)

    ““Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
    “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Thou art the Way.
    Hadst Thou been nothing but the goal,
    I cannot say
    If Thou hadst ever met my soul.”
    —Alice Meynell (1847–1922)