If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

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.