A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

Her prose essays were remarkable for fineness of culture and peculiar restraint of style. After a series of illnesses including migraine and depression Alice Meynell died 27 November 1922. 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.

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.