THE COLOUR OF LIFE
Red has been praised for its nobility as the colour
of life. But the true colour of life is not
red. Red is the colour of violence, or of life
broken open, edited, and...
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Alice Meynell was extraordinarily well known during her career, which spanned the late-Victorian and mid-Georgian eras. Her elegant, acute essays were frequently praised, and as a poet she was given t...
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Alice Meynell was a remarkable literary figure and personality of the latter half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. An independent woman for her era, Meynell was a lead...
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The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard
Alice (Christina Gertrude Thompson) Meynell