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