The Children

Alice Meynell

Language: English

Genres: Essays & Short Works Non-fiction

Narrators:Jim Locke, Kathleen Moore, Larry Wilson, Kate Follis, April6090, Kalynda

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1. Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I.
2. Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II.
3. Children in Midwinter
4. That Pretty Person
5. Out of Town
6. Expression
7. Under the Early Stars
8. The Man with Two Heads
9. Children in Burlesque
10. Authorship
11. Letters
12. The Fields
13. The Barren Shore
14. The Boy
15. Illness
16. The Young Child
17. Fair and Brown
18. Real Childhood

About

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." This is a collection of her essays on children. The opening line for the first essay sets the stage. "To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations. You cannot anticipate him." - Summary by Larry Wilson