Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

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.