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Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays

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 later converted to Roman Catholicism. These essays are very evocative for anyone who has, or wants to visit London, capturing the atmosphere of the late nineteenth century In "Ceres' Runaway," she covers topics ranging through travel, literature and children. - Summary by Larry Wilson (2 hr 58 min)

Chapters

Ceres’ Runaway

A Vanquished Man

A Northern Fancy

Laughter

Harlequin Mercutio

The Little Language

Anima Pellegrina!

The Sea Wall

The Daffodil

Addresses

The Audience

Tithonus

The Tow Path

The Tethered Constellations

Popular Burlesque

Dry Autumn

The Plaid

Two Burdens

The Unready

The Child of Tumult

The Child of Subsiding Tumult