Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays

Author(s): Alice Meynell

Genre(s): *non-fiction, Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Annyiee Hill, Eva Davis, Nemo, Lillis Joy, DrPGould, Brianna, Michael Fassio, Roman Noble, Larry Wilson

Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 02 hours and 58 minutes

Language: English

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