| Title | : | The Children |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Alice Meynell |
| Release | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
| Size | : | 4930948 |
| Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Published in 1897, “The Children” is a central book of essays to all of Meynell’s prose work because childhood is the foundation of the human life explored in one way or another in all of the other essays. As she wrote in “The Illusion of Historic Time,” an essay on adult perception of contracted time, “Childhood is itself Antiquity — to every man his only Antiquity.” Meynell was widely regarded as one of the most important essayists of her day due to the remarkable quantity and quality of her essays. Well-written and intriguing, elegiac and melancholic, this volume of essays will not undoubtedly leave you indifferent. |
