Hearts of Controversy

Author(s): Alice Meynell

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Emmi Kranz, Colleen McMahon, Lucy Kempton, Kathleen Moore, Alan Mapstone, Larry Wilson

Number of Chapters: 6

Length: 02 hours and 19 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. In this volume, In this volume Meynell offers her impressions on some of the best known literary figures of her day including Charles Dickens, Tennyson.and the Bronte sisters. - Summary by Larry Wilson