The Children
Alice Meynell
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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 (1 hr 56 min)
Chapitres
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I. | 6:52 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II. | 7:28 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Children in Midwinter | 10:30 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| That Pretty Person | 11:59 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| Out of Town | 5:50 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| Expression | 2:34 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Under the Early Stars | 5:15 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| The Man with Two Heads | 5:29 | Lu par April6090 |
| Children in Burlesque | 4:07 | Lu par April6090 |
| Authorship | 3:23 | Lu par Kalynda |
| Letters | 3:16 | Lu par Kalynda |
| The Fields | 6:26 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| The Barren Shore | 8:05 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| The Boy | 5:53 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Illness | 3:51 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| The Young Child | 8:42 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Fair and Brown | 7:16 | Lu par Jim Locke |
| Real Childhood | 9:48 | Lu par Jim Locke |