The Spirit of Place and Other Essays


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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)

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The Spirit of Place 9:28 Leído por Larry Wilson
Mrs. Dingley 12:42 Leído por Kate Follis
Solitude 9:36 Leído por Kathleen Moore
The Lady of the Lyrics 10:36 Leído por Eva Davis (d. 2025)
July 6:16 Leído por Kathleen Moore
Wells 8:27 Leído por Larry Wilson
The Foot 9:40 Leído por Nemo
Have Patience, Little Saint 10:41 Leído por Kate Follis
The Ladies of the Idyll 11:20 Leído por Kate Follis
A Derivation 7:33 Leído por Kate Follis
A Counterchange 11:08 Leído por Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Rain 5:48 Leído por Nemo
Letters of Marceline Valmore 7:20 Leído por Eva Davis (d. 2025)
The Hours of Sleep 7:29 Leído por Eva Davis (d. 2025)
The Horizon 9:14 Leído por Michael Fassio
Habits and Consciousness 3:25 Leído por Scotty Smith
Shadows 8:12 Leído por Eva Davis (d. 2025)