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