The Spirit of Place and Other Essays
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 covering a wide range of topics from the opening essay on the "Spirit of Place" to a playful essay about the foot, and musing on topics such as rain, the horizon and the concluding essay, "Shadows." - Summary by Larry Wilson (2 hr 28 min)
Chapitres
| The Spirit of Place | 9:28 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Mrs. Dingley | 12:42 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| Solitude | 9:36 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| The Lady of the Lyrics | 10:36 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| July | 6:16 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| Wells | 8:27 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| The Foot | 9:40 | Lu par Nemo |
| Have Patience, Little Saint | 10:41 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| The Ladies of the Idyll | 11:20 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| A Derivation | 7:33 | Lu par Kate Follis |
| A Counterchange | 11:08 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Rain | 5:48 | Lu par Nemo |
| Letters of Marceline Valmore | 7:20 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Hours of Sleep | 7:29 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Horizon | 9:14 | Lu par Michael Fassio |
| Habits and Consciousness | 3:25 | Lu par Scotty Smith |
| Shadows | 8:12 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |