Father of Women and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Father of Women and Other Poems - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Alice Meynell

Language: English

Genre(s): PoetrySingle Author

1 / 16A Father of Women

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16 Chapter(s)
  • 1. A Father of Women
  • 2. Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle
  • 3. Nurse Edith Cavell
  • 4. Summer in England, 1914
  • 5. To Tintoretto in Venice
  • 6. A Thrush Before Dawn
  • 7. The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries
  • 8. To O, of her Dark Eyes
  • 9. The Treasure
  • 10. A Wind of Clear Weather in England
  • 11. In Sleep
  • 12. The Divine Privilege
  • 13. Free Will
  • 14. The Two Questions
  • 15. The Lords Prayer
  • 16. Easter Night

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." The Meynell's converted to Roman Catholicism and many of the poems in this volume, published just five years before her death, reflect religious themes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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