The Spirit of Place and Other Essays

Author(s): Alice Meynell

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Larry Wilson, Kate Follis, Kathleen Moore, Eva Davis, Nemo, Michael Fassio, Scotty Smith

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 02 hours and 28 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." 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