The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

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.