The Independent - London, September 2nd, 1999
WHILE, AS obituary columns daily attest, it is no great thing these days to live to 96, it is surely exceptional to mark one's 95th birthday by publishing a new, well-researched and substantial book. What Grandmother Said, published in February last year, was the latest of a number of rare achievements that Dame Alix Meynell accomplished in the course of her long life. That of which she was most proud was to have been, in 1925, one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination. Even as a child her ambition was to have a desk; she got one -...
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